Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 16
A diligent search was accordingly made in every direction, but for a long time in vain; at length a soldier brought to Taric the head of a Christian warrior, on which was a cap decorated with feathers and precious stones.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: make, bring, be, decorate · To what, where: diligent search, direction, head, Taric, cap
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 search | det |
| 2 | diligent | diligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 search | amod |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 direction | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 direction | det |
| 9 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vain | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 vain | cc |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vain | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 vain | case |
| 17 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 length | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 soldier | det |
| 22 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 length | appos |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 soldier | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Taric | case |
| 25 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 warrior | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 warrior | det |
| 30 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 warrior | amod |
| 31 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cap | punct |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 cap | obl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 cap | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cap | det |
| 37 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | appos |
| 38 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 cap | acl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 feathers | case |
| 40 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 decorated | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 stones | cc |
| 42 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stones | amod |
| 43 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 feathers | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | a diligent search | every direction | at length; accordingly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | a soldier not said here | the head of a Christian warrior | Taric | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to taric=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | past | a cap | the head of a Christian warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decorate | participle | a cap not said here | with feathers and precious stones | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=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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