Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 2
The standard of the true faith was constantly displayed from the loftiest tower, and a fire blazed there throughout the night, as signals of distress to the surrounding country.
Who acts: fire · What happens: display, blaze, signal · To what, where: standard, loftiest tower, distress
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 (fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 standard | det |
| 2 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 faith | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 faith | det |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 faith | amod |
| 6 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 standard | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 displayed | aux:pass |
| 8 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 9 displayed | advmod |
| 9 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tower | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tower | det |
| 12 | loftiest | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 tower | amod |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 displayed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blazed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blazed | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blazed | nsubj |
| 18 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 displayed | conj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 blazed | advmod |
| 20 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blazed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 signals | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 signals | case |
| 25 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blazed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 distress | case |
| 27 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 signals | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 country | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 country | det |
| 30 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 country | compound |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blazed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | display | past · passive | the standard of the true faith | the loftiest tower | constantly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | blaze | past | a fire | there | night | as signals of distress; to the surrounding country | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 3 | signal | distress | nom signal «communication 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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