Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 1
A light had burned throughout the night in the tent of the king, and anxious thoughts and dismal visions troubled his repose.
Who acts: anxious thoughts, king · What happens: burn, trouble, repose · To what, where: light, tent, repose
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anxious thoughts, king), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | aux |
| 4 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tent | det |
| 10 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tent | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 troubled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 troubled | cc |
| 16 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thoughts | amod |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 troubled | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 visions | cc |
| 19 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 visions | amod |
| 20 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 thoughts | conj |
| 21 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 repose | nmod:poss |
| 23 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 troubled | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past · perfect · passive | a light | the tent of the king | night | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | trouble | past | anxious thoughts and dismal visions | king's repose | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus repose=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | repose | king | nom repose «act 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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