Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 8
The day had not yet dawned, when the sleepless and impatient monarch summoned his attendants and arrayed himself for the field.
Who acts: sleepless monarch · What happens: not dawn, summon, array · To what, where: attendants, monarch
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 (sleepless monarch), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dawned | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dawned | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 dawned | advmod |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoned | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 summoned | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monarch | det |
| 10 | sleepless | sleepless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 monarch | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 impatient | cc |
| 12 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sleepless | conj |
| 13 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoned | nsubj |
| 14 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dawned | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 16 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 summoned | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrayed | cc |
| 18 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 summoned | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 arrayed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrayed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dawn | past · perfect | yet; day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | summon | past | the sleepless monarch | monarch's attendants | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | array | past | the sleepless monarch not said here | monarch | for the field | tree rules |
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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