Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 31
Pelistes sallied forth with his cavaliers and such of the soldiery as he could collect, and endeavoured to repel the foe; but every effort was in vain.
Who acts: Pelistes, effort · What happens: sally, collect, endeavour, repel, be · To what, where: such soldiery, foe
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 (Pelistes, effort), 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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sallied | nsubj |
| 2 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 sallied | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cavaliers | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cavaliers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sallied | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 soldiery | cc |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soldiery | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 soldiery | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldiery | det |
| 11 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cavaliers | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 collect | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 collect | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 collect | aux |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 soldiery | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 endeavoured | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 endeavoured | cc |
| 18 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sallied | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 repel | mark |
| 20 | repel | repel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foe | det |
| 22 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 repel | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 vain | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 vain | cc |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 effort | det |
| 26 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 vain | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 vain | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 vain | case |
| 29 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sallied | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sallied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | past | Pelistes | with Pelistes's cavaliers and the such soldiery; forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | collect | could | Pelistes | the such soldiery not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldiery=Theme | ||||
| 3 | endeavour | past | Pelistes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | repel | to-infinitive | Pelistes not said here | the foe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foe=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | every effort | vain property | tree rules |
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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