Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 28
The grey of the dawning had just streaked the east, when Pelistes took lance in hand, hung his shield about his neck, and, mounting his steed, issued quietly forth from a postern of the convent.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: streak, take, hang, mount, issue · To what, where: grey, lance, hand, shield, steed, postern
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), 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 grey | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 streaked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dawning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dawning | det |
| 5 | dawning | dawning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grey | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 streaked | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 streaked | advmod |
| 8 | streaked | streak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 east | det |
| 10 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 streaked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 took | advmod |
| 13 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 streaked | parataxis |
| 15 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hung | punct |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shield | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mounting | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mounting | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mounting | punct |
| 28 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hung | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 steed | nmod:poss |
| 30 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mounting | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 issued | punct |
| 32 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 mounting | conj |
| 33 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 34 forth | advmod |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 issued | advmod |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 postern | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 postern | det |
| 37 | postern | postern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 issued | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 convent | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 convent | det |
| 40 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 postern | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 streaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | streak | past · perfect · passive | the grey of the dawning | the east obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Pelistes | lance | hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lance=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | hang | past | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes's shield | about Pelistes's neck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Theme about neck=Destination | |||
| 4 | mount | gerund | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes's steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 5 | issue | participle | Pelistes not said here | a postern of the convent | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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