Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 33
Throwing himself again upon his steed, he abandoned the road and galloped across the rugged heights.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: throw, abandon, gallop · To what, where: Pelistes, steed, road, rugged heights
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 | Throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 abandoned | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Throwing | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Throwing | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 steed | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Throwing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Throwing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 abandoned | nsubj |
| 9 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 abandoned | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 galloped | cc |
| 13 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 abandoned | conj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 heights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heights | det |
| 16 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heights | amod |
| 17 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 galloped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes | Pelistes's steed | again | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon steed=Destination | ||
| 2 | abandon | past | Pelistes | the road | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme road=Source | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past | Pelistes not said here | the rugged heights | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across height=Trajectory |
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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