Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 22

When Roderick issued forth in this resplendent state, says an Arabian writer, surrounded by his guards in gilded armour and waving plumes and scarfs and surcoats of a thousand dyes, it was as if the sun were emerging in the dazzling chariot of the day from amidst the glorious clouds of morning.

Who acts: Roderick, Arabian writer, armour · What happens: issue, say, surround, gild, wave, emerge · To what, where: resplendent state, Arabian writer, dazzling chariot, morning · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Roderick, Arabian writer, armour), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 issued	advmod
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 issued	nsubj
3	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 says	advcl
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 issued	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 state	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 state	det
7	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 state	amod
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 issued	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 writer	det
12	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 writer	amod
13	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 surrounded	punct
15	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 writer	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 guards	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 guards	nmod:poss
18	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 surrounded	obl:agent
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 armour	case
20	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 armour	amod
21	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 surrounded	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 plumes	cc
23	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 plumes	amod
24	plumes	plume	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 armour	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scarfs	cc
26	scarfs	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plumes	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 surcoats	cc
28	surcoats	surcoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 plumes	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 dyes	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thousand	det
31	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 dyes	nummod
32	dyes	dye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 surcoats	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 emerging	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 emerging	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 emerging	aux
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 emerging	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 emerging	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sun	det
39	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 emerging	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 emerging	aux
41	emerging	emerge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 says	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	45 chariot	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 chariot	det
44	dazzling	dazzling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 chariot	amod
45	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 emerging	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 day	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 day	det
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 chariot	nmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	53 clouds	case
50	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	53 clouds	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 clouds	det
52	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 clouds	amod
53	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 emerging	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 morning	case
55	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 clouds	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	issue	past	Roderick		this resplendent state	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	a Arabian writer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	surround	participle		a Arabian writer not said here		in gilded armour and waving plumes and scarfs and surcoats of thousand dyes; writer's guards obl:agent	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in armour=Theme
4	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	wave	gerund					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	emerge a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	armour		the dazzling chariot of the day	from the glorious clouds of morning; the sun nsubj	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chariot=Location
7	cloud			morning			nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 22