Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 12
The archbishop saddled his mule and departed just as the faint blush of morning began to kindle in the east.
Who acts: archbishop, faint blush, morning · What happens: saddle, depart, begin, kindle, blush · To what, where: mule, east
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 (archbishop, faint blush, morning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 archbishop | det |
| 2 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saddled | nsubj |
| 3 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mule | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saddled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 departed | cc |
| 7 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saddled | conj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 began | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 began | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blush | det |
| 11 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blush | amod |
| 12 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 began | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blush | nmod |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 departed | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kindle | mark |
| 17 | kindle | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 east | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 east | det |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kindle | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saddle | past | the archbishop | archbishop's mule | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mule=Destination | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the archbishop not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the faint blush of morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kindle | to-infinitive | the faint blush of morning not said here | the east | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | blush | morning | nom blush «state intransitive»: of=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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