Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 38
“Well met, señor alcayde!” exclaimed he, “and overtaken in good time.
What happens: meet, exclaim, overtake · To what, where: señor alcayde, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 met | advmod |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 exclaimed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 alcayde | punct |
| 5 | señor | señor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 alcayde | amod |
| 6 | alcayde | alcayde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 overtaken | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 overtaken | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 overtaken | cc |
| 14 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overtaken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet in a quote | participle | señor alcayde | well property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | enemy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 3 | overtake in a quote | participle | time | tree rules |
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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