Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 25
He called upon them to summon up the ancient valour of their race, and avenge the blood of their brethren.
Who acts: Don, soldiers · What happens: call, summon up, avenge, race · To what, where: ancient valour, blood · 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 (Don, soldiers), 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 | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 summon | mark |
| 6 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 summon | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 valour | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 valour | amod |
| 10 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summon | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 race | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 race | nmod:poss |
| 13 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 valour | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 avenge | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 avenge | cc |
| 16 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blood | det |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 avenge | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 brethren | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blood | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Don | upon soldiers = soldier | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | summon up | to-infinitive | Don not said here | the ancient valour of soldiers's race | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | avenge | present | the blood of soldiers's brethren | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | race | soldiers = soldier | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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