Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 35
An arrow whistled by his ear, and two more stuck in the target which he had thrown upon his back.
What happens: whistle, throw · To what, where: arrow, target, back
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 arrow | det |
| 2 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 arrow | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whistled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stuck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stuck | cc |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 stuck | nsubj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrow | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 target | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 target | det |
| 14 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stuck | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thrown | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thrown | aux |
| 18 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 target | acl:relcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thrown | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | participle | a arrow not said here | by page's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the target | page's back | page nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon back=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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