Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 39
The warrior, as he contemplated the supposed tomb of the once haughty Roderick, forgot all his faults and errors, and shed a soldier’s tear over his memory; but when his thoughts turned to Count Julian, his patriotic indignation broke forth, and with his dagger he inscribed a rude malediction on the stone.
Who acts: monarch, warrior, thoughts, patriotic indignation · What happens: contemplate, suppose, forget, shed, turn, count · To what, where: supposed tomb, faults, tear, memory, Julian, rude malediction
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 (monarch, warrior, thoughts, patriotic indignation), 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 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 contemplated | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 contemplated | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 contemplated | nsubj |
| 6 | contemplated | contemplate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tomb | det |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tomb | amod |
| 9 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contemplated | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Roderick | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Roderick | det |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 haughty | advmod |
| 13 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Roderick | amod |
| 14 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tomb | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 warrior | punct |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 faults | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 faults | nmod:poss |
| 19 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgot | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 errors | cc |
| 21 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 faults | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shed | cc |
| 24 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgot | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 soldier | det |
| 26 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tear | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 soldier | case |
| 28 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shed | obj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 memory | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 memory | nmod:poss |
| 31 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shed | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 broke | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 broke | cc |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 turned | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 36 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 turned | nsubj |
| 37 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 broke | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 Count | mark |
| 39 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 turned | xcomp |
| 40 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Count | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 turned | punct |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 indignation | nmod:poss |
| 43 | patriotic | patriotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 indignation | amod |
| 44 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 broke | nsubj |
| 45 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgot | parataxis |
| 46 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 45 broke | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 inscribed | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 inscribed | cc |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 dagger | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 dagger | nmod:poss |
| 51 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 inscribed | obl |
| 52 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 inscribed | nsubj |
| 53 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgot | conj |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 malediction | det |
| 55 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 malediction | amod |
| 56 | malediction | malediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 inscribed | obj |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 stone | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 stone | det |
| 59 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 inscribed | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contemplate | past | monarch | the supposed tomb of the haughty Roderick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | forget | past | the warrior | monarch's faults and errors | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shed | past | the warrior not said here | a soldier's tear | monarch's memory | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | |||
| 5 | turn | past | monarch's thoughts | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | count | to-infinitive | monarch's thoughts not said here | Julian | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme | ||||
| 7 | break | past | monarch's patriotic indignation | forth property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | inscribe | past | monarch | a rude malediction | the stone | with monarch's dagger | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent malediction=Theme on stone=Destination | ||
| 9 | fault | monarch | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | think | monarch | nom thought «cognition 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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