Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 40
Pelistes made no other reply than by drawing his sword, bracing his shield, and preparing for defence.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: make, draw, brace, prepare · To what, where: other reply, sword, shield
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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 reply | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reply | amod |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 drawing | mark |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 drawing | mark |
| 8 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drawing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bracing | punct |
| 12 | bracing | brace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drawing | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shield | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bracing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 preparing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 preparing | cc |
| 17 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drawing | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 defence | case |
| 19 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 preparing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Pelistes | no other reply | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product | ||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 3 | brace | gerund | Pelistes not said here | Pelistes's shield | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare | gerund | Pelistes not said here | for defence | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for defence=Beneficiary |
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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