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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 39

He reached his home overcome with affright; several hours elapsed before he could recover speech to tell his story, and he died on the following day.

Who acts: contest, home · What happens: reach, overcome, elapse, recover, tell, die · To what, where: several hours, speech, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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, home), 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

nsubjnmod:possnsubjccompcaseoblpunctamodobl:unmarkedaclmarknsubjauxadvclobjmarkaclnmod:possobjpunctccnsubjconjcasedetamodoblpunctrootHePRONreachedVERBhisPRONhomeNOUNovercomeVERBwithADPaffrightNOUN;PUNCTseveralADJhoursNOUNelapsedVERBbeforeSCONJhePRONcouldAUXrecoverVERBspeechNOUNtoPARTtellVERBhisPRONstoryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONdiedVERBonADPtheDETfollowingVERBdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 reachednsubj
2reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 homenmod:poss
4homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing5 overcomensubj
5overcomeovercomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 reachedccomp
6withwithADP_7 affrightcase
7affrightaffrightNOUNNumber=Sing5 overcomeobl
8;;PUNCT_10 hourspunct
9severalseveralADJDegree=Pos10 hoursamod
10hourshourNOUNNumber=Plur2 reachedobl:unmarked
11elapsedelapseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 hoursacl
12beforebeforeSCONJ_15 recovermark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 recovernsubj
14couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin15 recoveraux
15recoverrecoverVERBVerbForm=Inf11 elapsedadvcl
16speechspeechNOUNNumber=Sing15 recoverobj
17totoPART_18 tellmark
18telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf16 speechacl
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 storynmod:poss
20storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing18 tellobj
21,,PUNCT_24 diedpunct
22andandCCONJ_24 diedcc
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 diednsubj
24dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 reachedconj
25ononADP_28 daycase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 daydet
27followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger28 dayamod
28daydayNOUNNumber=Sing24 diedobl
29..PUNCT_2 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastcontesthourtree rules
2overcomepresentcontest's homewith affrightvn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3elapseparticipleseveral hours not said heretree rules
4recovercouldcontestspeechvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme
5tell speech: assertto-infinitivecontest not said herecontest's storyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
6diepastcontestdayvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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