Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 34
The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse, stumbling upon the margin, rolled with his rider to the bottom.
Who acts: deep dry channel · What happens: check, stumble, roll, channel · To what, where: career, margin, torrent
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 (deep dry channel), 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 | 4 channel | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 channel | amod |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 channel | amod |
| 4 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 checked | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 torrent | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 torrent | det |
| 7 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 channel | nmod |
| 8 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 career | nmod:poss |
| 10 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 checked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 horse | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 checked | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stumbling | punct |
| 16 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 checked | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 margin | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 margin | det |
| 19 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stumbling | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rolled | punct |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 margin | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rider | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 rider | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 bottom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottom | det |
| 27 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rider | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | the deep dry channel of a torrent | Pelistes's career | Pelistes's horse parataxis | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent career=Theme | |||
| 2 | stumble | gerund | the deep dry channel of a torrent not said here | the margin | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon margin=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | roll | participle | the margin not said here | with Pelistes's rider to the bottom | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rider=Theme | ||||
| 4 | channel | a torrent | nom channel «communication 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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