Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 5
The people of Cordova knew the valiant and steadfast spirit of Pelistes, and rallied round him as a last hope.
Who acts: people · What happens: know, rally round · To what, where: valiant spirit, Pelistes
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 (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cordova | case |
| 4 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spirit | det |
| 7 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spirit | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 steadfast | cc |
| 9 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 valiant | conj |
| 10 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Pelistes | case |
| 12 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 spirit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rallied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rallied | cc |
| 15 | rallied | rally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 17 him | advmod |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rallied | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 hope | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hope | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hope | amod |
| 21 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rallied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the people of Cordova | the valiant spirit of Pelistes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rally round | past | the people of Cordova not said here | Pelistes | as a last hope | 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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