Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 16
Keep a vigilant look out toward the nearest mountain.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, look out · To what, where: a
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 (you), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | vigilant | vigilant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 look | compound:prt |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 8 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 mountain | amod |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | a | vigilant property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Theme | |||
| 2 | look out | infinitive | you not said here | toward the nearest mountain | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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