Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 17
If you behold five lights blazing upon its summit, be assured I am at hand with succour, and prepare yourselves to sally forth upon the city as I attack the gates.
Who acts: you, five lights, I · What happens: behold, blaze, assure, be, prepare, sally · To what, where: five lights, summit, hand, yourselves, gates
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, five lights, 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 behold | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 behold | nsubj |
| 3 | behold | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 assured | advcl |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lights | nummod |
| 5 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 behold | obj |
| 6 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 lights | acl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 summit | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 summit | nmod:poss |
| 9 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blazing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 assured | aux:pass |
| 12 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hand | cop |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assured | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 succour | case |
| 18 | succour | succour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prepare | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prepare | cc |
| 21 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 assured | conj |
| 22 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 prepare | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sally | mark |
| 24 | sally | sally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 prepare | xcomp |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 sally | advmod |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sally | obl |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 attack | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 attack | nsubj |
| 31 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sally | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gates | det |
| 33 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 attack | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold a condition, not said to happen | present | you | five lights | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | blaze | gerund | five lights not said here | mountain's summit | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon summit=Location | ||||
| 3 | assure | infinitive · passive | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | I | hand | with succour | tree rules | |||
| 5 | prepare | infinitive | yourselves | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | sally not said to happen | to-infinitive | upon the city; forth property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | attack | present | I | the gates | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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