Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 14
As the archbishop passed through the camp, he looked with a compassionate heart on this vast multitude, of whom so many were soon to perish.
Who acts: archbishop · What happens: pass, look, perish · To what, where: camp, many
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 archbishop | det |
| 3 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 13 | compassionate | compassionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 multitude | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 multitude | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 multitude | amod |
| 18 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whom | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | parataxis |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 many | advmod |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 perish | obj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 perish | aux |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 perish | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 perish | mark |
| 27 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the archbishop | the camp | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through camp=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | archbishop | with a compassionate heart; on this vast multitude; whom parataxis | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on multitude=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perish | past | archbishop not said here | many | soon property | tree rules |
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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