Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 1
For three long and anxious months did the good knight Pelistes and his cavaliers defend their sacred asylum against the repeated assaults of the infidels.
Who acts: long months, cavaliers · What happens: do, defend, repeat, assault · To what, where: good knight, sacred asylum, infidels
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long months, cavaliers), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 three | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 did | obl |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 months | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 anxious | cc |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knight | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knight | amod |
| 10 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 11 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knight | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 defend | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cavaliers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 defend | nsubj |
| 15 | defend | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 did | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 asylum | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 asylum | amod |
| 18 | asylum | asylum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 defend | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 assaults | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 assaults | det |
| 21 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 assaults | amod |
| 22 | assaults | assault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 defend | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 infidels | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 infidels | det |
| 25 | infidels | infidel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 assaults | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | long months | the good knight | for three | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | defend | present | Pelistes's cavaliers | cavaliers's sacred asylum | against the repeated assaults of the infidels | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent asylum=Beneficiary against assault=Theme | |||
| 3 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | assault | the infidels | nom assault «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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