Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 18
The trembling hind was an inhabitant of Cordova, and revealed to them the state of the place, and the weakness of its garrison.
Who acts: trembling hind · What happens: be, reveal · To what, where: inhabitant, state, Christians
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 (trembling hind), 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 | 3 hind | det |
| 2 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hind | compound |
| 3 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabitant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inhabitant | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 inhabitant | det |
| 6 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Cordova | case |
| 8 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inhabitant | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 revealed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 revealed | cc |
| 11 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inhabitant | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 revealed | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 revealed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 state | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weakness | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weakness | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weakness | det |
| 22 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 revealed | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 garrison | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 garrison | nmod:poss |
| 25 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weakness | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inhabitant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the trembling hind | a inhabitant | of Cordova | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reveal | participle | the state of the place | Christians = christian | the weakness of hind's garrison conj | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent state=Topic to they=Recipient |
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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