Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 14
If I succeed in getting out of the city, I will hasten to Toledo for assistance.
Who acts: I · What happens: succeed, get out, hasten · To what, where: city, Toledo
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 succeed | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 succeed | nsubj |
| 3 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hasten | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 getting | mark |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 succeed | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 succeed | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hasten | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hasten | aux |
| 13 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Toledo | case |
| 15 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hasten | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 assistance | case |
| 17 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hasten | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get out | gerund | I not said here | the city | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | future | I | Toledo | for assistance | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to toledo=Result |
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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