Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 26
Pelistes then embraced them one by one, and gave them his benediction, and as he did so his heart yearned over them, for he felt towards them, not merely as a companion in arms and as a commander, but as a father; and he took leave of them as if he had been going to his death.
Who acts: Pelistes, heart · What happens: embrace, give, do, yearn, feel, take · To what, where: cavaliers, benediction, death
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, heart), 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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 embraced | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 benediction | nmod:poss |
| 13 | benediction | benediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 did | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 did | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 yearned | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yearned | nsubj |
| 22 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 did | advcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 yearned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 felt | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 felt | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 yearned | conj |
| 29 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 merely | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 merely | advmod |
| 33 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 28 felt | advmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 companion | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 companion | det |
| 36 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 merely | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 arms | case |
| 38 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 companion | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 commander | cc |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 commander | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 commander | det |
| 42 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 arms | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 father | punct |
| 44 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 father | cc |
| 45 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 father | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 father | det |
| 47 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 felt | advcl |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 took | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 took | cc |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 took | nsubj |
| 51 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 52 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 took | ccomp |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 leave | obl |
| 55 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 60 going | mark |
| 56 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 60 going | mark |
| 57 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 going | nsubj |
| 58 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 going | aux |
| 59 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 60 going | aux |
| 60 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 took | advcl |
| 61 | to | to | ADP | _ | 63 death | case |
| 62 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 death | nmod:poss |
| 63 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 going | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | Pelistes | cavaliers = cavalier | then | one obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | give | past | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes's benediction | cavaliers = cavalier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient benediction=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | Pelistes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | yearn | past | Pelistes's heart | over cavaliers = cavalier | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | heart | towards cavaliers = cavalier; a father advcl; merely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | past | heart | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 7 | leave | infinitive | heart not said here | of cavaliers = cavalier | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | go | past · perfect · progressive | heart | Pelistes's death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | die | Pelistes | nom death «event 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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