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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 37

Plucking a shaft from his quiver, and turning and rising in the stirrups as his courser galloped at full speed, he drew the arrow to the head and launched it at his pursuer.

Who acts: page, courser · What happens: pluck, turn, rise, gallop, draw, launch · To what, where: shaft, quiver, stirrups, full speed, arrow, head

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: who acts (page, courser), 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

advcldetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjccconjcasedetoblmarknmod:possnsubjadvclcaseamodoblpunctnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodccconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootPluckingVERBaDETshaftNOUNfromADPhisPRONquiverNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJturningVERBandCCONJrisingVERBinADPtheDETstirrupsNOUNasSCONJhisPRONcourserNOUNgallopedVERBatADPfullADJspeedNOUN,PUNCThePRONdrewVERBtheDETarrowNOUNtoADPtheDETheadNOUNandCCONJlaunchedVERBitPRONatADPhisPRONpursuerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PluckingpluckVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 drewadvcl
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 shaftdet
3shaftshaftNOUNNumber=Sing1 Pluckingobj
4fromfromADP_6 quivercase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 quivernmod:poss
6quiverquiverNOUNNumber=Sing1 Pluckingobl
7,,PUNCT_9 turningpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 turningcc
9turningturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part1 Pluckingconj
10andandCCONJ_11 risingcc
11risingriseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 turningconj
12ininADP_14 stirrupscase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 stirrupsdet
14stirrupsstirrupNOUNNumber=Plur11 risingobl
15asasSCONJ_18 gallopedmark
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 coursernmod:poss
17coursercourserNOUNNumber=Sing18 gallopednsubj
18gallopedgallopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 risingadvcl
19atatADP_21 speedcase
20fullfullADJDegree=Pos21 speedamod
21speedspeedNOUNNumber=Sing18 gallopedobl
22,,PUNCT_1 Pluckingpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 drewnsubj
24drewdrawVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 arrowdet
26arrowarrowNOUNNumber=Sing24 drewobj
27totoADP_29 headcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 headdet
29headheadNOUNNumber=Sing26 arrownmod
30andandCCONJ_31 launchedcc
31launchedlaunchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 drewconj
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 launchedobj
33atatADP_35 pursuercase
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 pursuernmod:poss
35pursuerpursuerNOUNNumber=Sing31 launchedobl
36..PUNCT_24 drewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pluckgerundpage not said herea shaftpage's quivervn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme from quiver=Source
2turngerundpage not said herevn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3risegerundpage not said herethe stirrupsvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stirrup=Location
4galloppastpage's courserfull speedvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory
5drawpastpagethe arrowthe headvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to head=Destination
6launchpastpage not said herecourserpage's pursuervn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at pursuer=Destination
7quiverpagenom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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