Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 37

The enemy drew near, and proved to be no other than Magued the renegado general, who had perceived him as he issued forth from the city, and had followed singly in pursuit.

Who acts: enemy · What happens: draw, prove, be, perceive, issue, follow · To what, where: renegado, city, pursuit

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 (enemy), 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 enemy	det
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 proved	cc
7	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	11 other	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 other	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proved	ccomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 Magued	case
13	Magued	Magued	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 other	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 renegado	det
15	renegado	renegado	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Magued	appos
16	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 renegado	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 perceived	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 perceived	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 perceived	aux
20	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 renegado	acl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 perceived	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 issued	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 issued	nsubj
24	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 perceived	advcl
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 issued	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 city	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 city	det
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 issued	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 followed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 followed	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 followed	aux
32	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 drew	conj
33	singly	singly	ADV	_	32 followed	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 pursuit	case
35	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 followed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the enemy			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	prove	past	the enemy not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	the enemy not said here			than Magued; other property	tree rules
4	perceive	past · perfect · passive		the renegado		enemy obj	tree rules
5	issue	past	enemy		the city	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	follow	past · perfect	the enemy not said here		pursuit	singly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 37