Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 3
The watchman from his turret kept a wary look out over the land, hoping in every cloud of dust to descry the glittering helms of Christian warriors.
Who acts: watchman · What happens: keep, hope, descry, cloud · To what, where: wary look, land, cloud, glittering helms, dust
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 (watchman), 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 watchman | det |
| 2 | watchman | watchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 turret | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turret | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watchman | nmod |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 look | det |
| 8 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | amod |
| 9 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 kept | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hoping | punct |
| 15 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 kept | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cloud | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 cloud | det |
| 18 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hoping | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dust | case |
| 20 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cloud | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 descry | mark |
| 22 | descry | descry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hoping | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 helms | det |
| 24 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 helms | compound |
| 25 | helms | helm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 descry | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 warriors | case |
| 27 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 warriors | amod |
| 28 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 helms | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the watchman from watchman's turret | a wary look | the land | out property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent look=Theme over land=Location | ||
| 2 | hope | gerund | the watchman from watchman's turret not said here | every cloud of dust | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | descry | to-infinitive | the watchman from watchman's turret not said here | the glittering helms of Christian warriors | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer helm=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cloud | dust | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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