Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 29

He paced slowly through the vacant streets, and the tramp of his steed echoed afar in that silent hour; but no one suspected a warrior, moving thus singly and tranquilly in an armed city, to be an enemy.

Who acts: Pelistes, tramp, one · What happens: pace, echo, suspect, move, be · To what, where: vacant streets, warrior, armed city, enemy

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, tramp, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paced	nsubj
2	paced	pace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 paced	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 streets	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 streets	det
6	vacant	vacant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 streets	amod
7	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paced	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 echoed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 echoed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tramp	det
11	tramp	tramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 echoed	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 steed	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 steed	nmod:poss
14	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tramp	nmod
15	echoed	echo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paced	conj
16	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 echoed	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 hour	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 hour	det
19	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hour	amod
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 echoed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 suspected	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 suspected	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suspected	nsubj
25	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paced	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 warrior	det
27	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suspected	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 moving	punct
29	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 suspected	advcl
30	thus	thus	ADV	_	31 singly	advmod
31	singly	singly	ADV	_	29 moving	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tranquilly	cc
33	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 singly	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 city	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 city	det
36	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 city	amod
37	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 moving	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 enemy	punct
39	to	to	PART	_	42 enemy	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 enemy	cop
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 enemy	det
42	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 moving	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pace	past	Pelistes		the vacant streets		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
2	echo	past	the tramp of Pelistes's steed			hour	afar property	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	suspect	past	no one	a warrior				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent warrior=Attribute
4	move	gerund	no one not said here		a armed city		singly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in city=Trajectory
5	is a	to-infinitive		a enemy				tree rules

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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 29