Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 49

At length Pelistes seemed to summon up all his remaining strength to make a signal blow; it was skilfully parried, and he fell prostrate upon the ground.

Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: seem, summon up, make, parry, fall · To what, where: length, remaining strength, signal blow, blow, ground

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	obl
3	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 summon	mark
6	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 summon	compound:prt
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 strength	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 strength	nmod:poss
10	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strength	amod
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 summon	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 summon	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 blow	det
15	signal	signal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 blow	amod
16	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 parried	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 parried	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 parried	aux:pass
20	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	_	21 parried	advmod
21	parried	parry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seemed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	conj
26	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fell	xcomp
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	Pelistes		length		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	summon up	to-infinitive	Pelistes not said here	Pelistes's remaining strength			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient
3	make	to-infinitive	Pelistes not said here	a signal blow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blow=Product
4	parry	past · passive		blow		skilfully property	tree rules
5	fall	past	Pelistes		the ground	prostrate property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 49