Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 9
He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied him to the camp, and, laying aside his regal crown, he knelt with head uncovered, and confessed his sins before the holy man.
Who acts: monarch, venerable Bishop · What happens: send, accompany, lay, kneel, uncover, confess · To what, where: monarch, camp, sins
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 (monarch, venerable Bishop), 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 | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Bishop | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bishop | det |
| 6 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bishop | amod |
| 7 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | Urbino | Urbino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bishop | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accompanied | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 accompanied | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 accompanied | aux |
| 12 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Bishop | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accompanied | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 camp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 camp | det |
| 16 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accompanied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knelt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 knelt | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laying | punct |
| 20 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 knelt | advcl |
| 21 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 24 crown | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 crown | nmod:poss |
| 23 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crown | amod |
| 24 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laying | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laying | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knelt | nsubj |
| 27 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knelt | obl |
| 30 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 knelt | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 confessed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 confessed | cc |
| 33 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sins | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 confessed | obj |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 38 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 man | amod |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 confessed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | monarch | then | for the venerable Bishop | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | accompany | past · perfect | the venerable Bishop | monarch | the camp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to camp=Destination | |||
| 3 | lay | gerund | monarch not said here | aside monarch's regal crown | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kneel | past | monarch | with head | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | uncover | participle | monarch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | confess | past | monarch not said here | monarch's sins | before the holy man | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic | |||
| 7 | crown | monarch | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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