Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 3
In the mid-watches of the night, when all was silent except the footstep of the sentinel, pacing before his tent, the king rose from his couch, and walking forth looked thoughtfully upon the martial scene before him.
Who acts: all, king, walking · What happens: be, pace, rise, walk, look · To what, where: tent, couch, mid-watches
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 (all, king, walking), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mid-watches | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mid-watches | det |
| 3 | mid-watches | mid-watch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mid-watches | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 silent | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 silent | mark |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 silent | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 silent | cop |
| 11 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mid-watches | parataxis |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 footstep | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 footstep | det |
| 14 | footstep | footstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 silent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sentinel | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sentinel | det |
| 17 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 footstep | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pacing | punct |
| 19 | pacing | pace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 silent | parataxis |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 tent | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pacing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | nsubj |
| 26 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tent | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 couch | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 couch | nmod:poss |
| 29 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looked | cc |
| 32 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 looked | csubj |
| 33 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 walking | advmod |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rose | conj |
| 35 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 34 looked | advmod |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 scene | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 scene | det |
| 38 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 scene | amod |
| 39 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looked | obl |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 scene | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mid-watches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | except the footstep of the sentinel; silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pace | gerund | light's tent | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before tent=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | rise | past | the king | light's tent not said here | light's couch | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tent=Extent from couch=Initial_State | |||
| 4 | walk | gerund | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | past | walking | upon the martial scene before light; thoughtfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon scene=Theme |
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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