Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 46
Pelistes, however, had been previously injured by his fall, and fought to great disadvantage.
Who acts: fall · What happens: injure, fight · To what, where: Pelistes
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 (fall), 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 | 8 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pelistes | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 injured | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 injured | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 injured | aux:pass |
| 7 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 8 injured | advmod |
| 8 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 fall | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fall | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 injured | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fought | cc |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 injured | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 disadvantage | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 disadvantage | amod |
| 17 | disadvantage | disadvantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 injured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | injure | past · perfect · passive | Pelistes's fall | Pelistes | however, previously property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fight | past | Pelistes's fall not said here | to great disadvantage | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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