Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 20
“The walls are high, and of wondrous strength,” replied the shepherd; “and soldiers hold watch at the gates by day and night.
Who acts: walls, shepherd, soldiers · What happens: be, reply, hold · To what, where: watch, gates · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (walls, shepherd, soldiers), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 high | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 replied | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 strength | case |
| 9 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strength | amod |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strength | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 strength | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shepherd | det |
| 15 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 hold | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 hold | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 soldiers | cc |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hold | nsubj |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | advcl |
| 21 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 gates | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gates | det |
| 24 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hold | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 night | cc |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 day | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the walls | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the shepherd | of wondrous strength | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | present | soldiers | watch | the gates | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme at gate=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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