Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 19
When he had finished, his warriors would fain have severally undertaken the enterprise, and they remonstrated against his exposing himself to such peril; but he was not to be shaken from his purpose.
Who acts: Pelistes, warriors · What happens: finish, fain, have, undertake, remonstrate, expose · To what, where: enterprise, Pelistes, such peril, purpose
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 (Pelistes, warriors), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fain | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fain | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fain | aux |
| 9 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fain | xcomp |
| 11 | severally | severally | ADV | _ | 12 undertaken | advmod |
| 12 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 have | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enterprise | det |
| 14 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 undertaken | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remonstrated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remonstrated | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 18 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fain | conj |
| 19 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 21 exposing | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 exposing | nsubj |
| 21 | exposing | expose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 remonstrated | advcl |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 exposing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 peril | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peril | amod |
| 25 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exposing | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 shaken | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 shaken | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 shaken | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shaken | aux:pass |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 shaken | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 shaken | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 shaken | aux:pass |
| 33 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fain | advcl |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 purpose | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 36 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shaken | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Pelistes | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fain | would | Pelistes's warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | Pelistes's warriors not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | undertake | participle | Pelistes's warriors not said here | the enterprise | severally property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | remonstrate | past | warriors = warrior | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | expose | gerund | Pelistes | Pelistes | such peril | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to peril=Recipient | |||
| 7 | not shake | past · passive | Pelistes | Pelistes's purpose | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from purpose=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | purpose | Pelistes | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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