Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 1
While the veteran Taric was making this wide circuit through the land, the expedition under Magued the renegado proceeded against the city of Cordova.
Who acts: veteran, expedition · What happens: make, proceed · To what, where: wide circuit, land
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veteran, expedition), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 veteran | det |
| 3 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | nsubj |
| 4 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 veteran | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 proceeded | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 circuit | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 circuit | amod |
| 9 | circuit | circuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 expedition | det |
| 15 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proceeded | nsubj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 Magued | case |
| 17 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 expedition | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 renegado | det |
| 19 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proceeded | nsubj |
| 20 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proceeded | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Cordova | case |
| 25 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 city | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | the veteran | this wide circuit | the land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product | |||
| 2 | proceed | past | the expedition under Magued | against the city of Cordova; the renegado nsubj | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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