Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 56
Taric then called off his troops from the pursuit, and took possession of the royal camp; and the couch which had been pressed so uneasily on the preceding night by Don Roderick, now yielded sound repose to his conqueror.
Who acts: Taric, Don, couch · What happens: call off, take, press, precede, yield, repose · To what, where: troops, pursuit, possession, couch, royal camp
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 (Taric, Don, couch), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 troops | nmod:poss |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 called | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pursuit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pursuit | det |
| 9 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 13 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 camp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 camp | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 camp | amod |
| 17 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possession | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 repose | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 repose | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 couch | det |
| 21 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 repose | nsubj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pressed | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 pressed | aux:pass |
| 25 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 couch | acl:relcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 uneasily | advmod |
| 27 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 25 pressed | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 night | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 night | det |
| 30 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 night | amod |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pressed | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 Don | case |
| 33 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 pressed | obl |
| 34 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Don | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sound | punct |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 yielded | advmod |
| 37 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 sound | amod |
| 38 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 repose | nsubj |
| 39 | repose | repose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 conqueror | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 conqueror | nmod:poss |
| 42 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 repose | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call off speech: assert | past | Taric | Taric's troops | the pursuit | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent troops=Theme from pursuit=Source | ||
| 2 | take | past | Taric not said here | possession of the royal camp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | press | past · perfect · passive | Don | the couch | night | uneasily property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 4 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | yield | participle | now | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | repose | infinitive | the couch | to Taric's conqueror; yielded sound nsubj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | possess | the royal camp | nom possession «act 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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