Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 30
He arrived at the gate just at the hour of opening; a foraging party was entering with cattle and with beasts of burthen, and he passed unheeded through the throng.
Who acts: Pelistes, hour, foraging party · What happens: arrive, open, forage, enter, pass · To what, where: gate, throng
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, hour, foraging party), 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 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 gate | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 hour | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 opening | mark |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hour | acl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 entering | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 party | det |
| 14 | foraging | forage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 party | amod |
| 15 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entering | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 entering | aux |
| 17 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 arrived | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 cattle | case |
| 19 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 entering | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beasts | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 beasts | case |
| 22 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cattle | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 burthen | case |
| 24 | burthen | burthen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beasts | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 passed | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 29 | unheeded | unheeded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 passed | xcomp |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 throng | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 throng | det |
| 32 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Pelistes | the gate | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | gerund | the hour not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | forage | gerund | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | enter | past · progressive | a foraging party | with cattle and beasts of burthen | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass | past | Pelistes | the throng | unheeded property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through throng=Location |
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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