Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 37
Here, then, Pelistes proposed to make a stand, and to endeavour to hold out until succour should arrive from some other city.
Who acts: Pelistes, succour · What happens: propose, make, endeavour, hold out, arrive · To what, where: stand, other city
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, succour), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 proposed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 proposed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proposed | nsubj |
| 6 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proposed | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stand | det |
| 10 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 endeavour | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 endeavour | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 endeavour | mark |
| 14 | endeavour | endeavour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proposed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hold | mark |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 endeavour | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hold | compound:prt |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 arrive | mark |
| 19 | succour | succour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrive | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 arrive | aux |
| 21 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hold | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 city | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 city | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 city | amod |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrive | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | Pelistes | here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Pelistes not said here | a stand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product | ||||
| 3 | endeavour | to-infinitive | Pelistes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold out | to-infinitive | Pelistes not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | arrive | should | succour | some other city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_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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