Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 5
Thou hast represented thy king as detested by his subjects, and surrounded by secret treason, but I behold his tents whitening the hills and dales, while thousands are hourly flocking to his standard.
Who acts: I, tents, thousands · What happens: represent, detest, surround, behol, whiten, flock · To what, where: Thou, tents, hills
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 (I, tents, thousands), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 represented | aux:pass |
| 3 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 king | nmod:poss |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represented | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 detested | mark |
| 7 | detested | detest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 represented | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 subjects | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 detested | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surrounded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 surrounded | cc |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 represented | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 treason | case |
| 15 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 treason | amod |
| 16 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 behold | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 behold | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 behold | nsubj |
| 20 | behold | behol | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 represented | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 behold | obj |
| 23 | whitening | whiten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 tents | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hills | det |
| 25 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 whitening | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dales | cc |
| 27 | dales | dale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hills | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flocking | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 flocking | mark |
| 30 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flocking | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 flocking | aux |
| 32 | hourly | hourly | ADV | _ | 33 flocking | advmod |
| 33 | flocking | flock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 behold | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 standard | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 standard | nmod:poss |
| 36 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flocking | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | Thou | thy king obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | detest | participle | by defiance's subjects | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | surround | participle | secret treason obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | behol | past | I | defiance's tents | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | whiten | gerund | defiance's tents not said here | the hills and dales | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | ||||
| 6 | flock | present · progressive | thousands | to defiance's standard; hourly property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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