Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 17
He was arrayed in robes of gold brocade; his sandals were embroidered with pearls and diamonds; he had a sceptre in his hand, and he wore a regal crown resplendent with inestimable jewels.
Who acts: king · What happens: array, embroider, have, wear · To what, where: king, robes, sandals, sceptre, hand, regal crown resplendent
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrayed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 3 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 robes | case |
| 5 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrayed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 brocade | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brocade | compound |
| 8 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 robes | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 embroidered | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 embroidered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 13 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrayed | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 pearls | case |
| 15 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 embroidered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 diamonds | cc |
| 17 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pearls | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrayed | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sceptre | det |
| 22 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sceptre | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wore | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wore | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 wore | nsubj |
| 29 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 had | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 resplendent | det |
| 31 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 resplendent | amod |
| 32 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 resplendent | compound |
| 33 | resplendent | resplendent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wore | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 jewels | case |
| 35 | inestimable | inestimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 jewels | amod |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 resplendent | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | past · passive | king | robes of gold brocade | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embroider | past · passive | king's sandals | with pearls and diamonds | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with pearl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | king | a sceptre | king's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Patient | |||
| 4 | wear | past | king | a regal crown resplendent | with inestimable jewels | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent resplendent=Source |
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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