Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 36
Losing all courage, he now turned and sought his way out of the cave.
Who acts: contest · What happens: lose, turn, seek · To what, where: courage, way, cave
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contest), 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 | Losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 courage | det |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Losing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 turned | advmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sought | cc |
| 9 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | contest not said here | all courage | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | contest | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | contest not said here | contest's way | the cave | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme out cave=Location |
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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