Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 47
The renegado perceived it, and sought not to slay him, but to take him alive.
Who acts: renegado · What happens: perceive, seek, not slay, take · To what, where: breath, renegado
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 (renegado), 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 renegado | det |
| 2 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 perceived | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sought | cc |
| 7 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 slay | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 slay | mark |
| 10 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sought | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 take | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | the renegado | breath | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | the renegado not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not slay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the renegado not said here | renegado | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | renegado | alive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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