Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 15
The warriors pressed to kiss his hand, and many a cavalier full of youth and fire received his benediction, who was to lie stiff and cold before the evening.
Who acts: warriors, many cavalier, benediction · What happens: press, kiss, receive, be · To what, where: hand, benediction
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 (warriors, many cavalier, benediction), 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 warriors | det |
| 2 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pressed | nsubj |
| 3 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kiss | mark |
| 5 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pressed | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kiss | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 received | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 received | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cavalier | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cavalier | det |
| 12 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | nsubj |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cavalier | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 youth | case |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fire | cc |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 youth | conj |
| 18 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pressed | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 benediction | nmod:poss |
| 20 | benediction | benediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lie | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lie | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 lie | mark |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 benediction | conj |
| 26 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lie | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cold | cc |
| 28 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stiff | conj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 evening | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 evening | det |
| 31 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stiff | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past | the warriors | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kiss | to-infinitive | the warriors not said here | archbishop's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | a many cavalier | archbishop's benediction | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benediction=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | archbishop's benediction | lie, stiff 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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