Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 7

At that very hour, and along the shadowy banks of that river, here and there gleaming with the scanty moonlight, passed the fugitive messenger of Count Julian, with the plan of the next day’s treason.

What happens: gleam, pass, plan · To what, where: fugitive messenger, treason

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 hour	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hour	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hour	advmod
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 banks	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 banks	cc
7	along	along	ADP	_	10 banks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banks	det
9	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 banks	amod
10	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hour	nmod:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 banks	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 here	punct
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 banks	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 there	cc
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 here	conj
18	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 here	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 moonlight	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moonlight	det
21	scanty	scanty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moonlight	compound
22	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gleaming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hour	punct
24	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 messenger	det
26	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 messenger	amod
27	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Julian	case
29	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Julian	compound
30	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 messenger	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 plan	punct
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 plan	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plan	det
34	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 treason	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 day	det
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 day	amod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 treason	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 day	case
40	treason	treason	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 plan	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gleam	gerund			with the scanty moonlight	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with moonlight=Theme
2	pass	past	the fugitive messenger of Count Julian	hour	with the plan of the next day's treason	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme messenger=Trajectory
3	plan		the next day's treason			nom plan «cognition 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 7

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 7