Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 19
Messengers after messengers arrived, vying who should most extol the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest.
Who acts: Messengers · What happens: arrive, vie, extol, achieve · To what, where: achievements, conqueror
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Messengers), 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 | Messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 messengers | case |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Messengers | nmod |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vying | punct |
| 6 | vying | vie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrived | advcl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 extol | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 extol | aux |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 extol | advmod |
| 10 | extol | extol | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 vying | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 achievements | det |
| 12 | achievements | achievement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 extol | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conqueror | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 conqueror | det |
| 15 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 achievements | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grandeur | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grandeur | det |
| 18 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conqueror | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 conquest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 conquest | det |
| 21 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grandeur | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Messengers after messengers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | vie | gerund | Messengers after messengers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | extol | should | the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest | who nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent achievement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | achieve | the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest | nom achievement «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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