Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 50
The renegado ran up, and, putting his foot upon his sword, and the point of his scimitar to his throat, called upon him to ask his life; but Pelistes lay without sense, and as one dead.
Who acts: renegado, Pelistes · What happens: run up, put, call, ask, lay, point · To what, where: foot, sword, point, life, scimitar · 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: who acts (renegado, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 renegado | det |
| 2 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 putting | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 putting | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 putting | punct |
| 8 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 putting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 point | det |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 scimitar | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 scimitar | nmod:poss |
| 20 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 point | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 throat | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scimitar | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 ask | mark |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 called | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 lay | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 lay | cc |
| 34 | Pelistes | Peliste | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 lay | nsubj |
| 35 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 sense | case |
| 37 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lay | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 dead | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dead | cc |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 dead | case |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 dead | nummod |
| 42 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lay | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the renegado | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the renegado not said here | renegado's foot | renegado's sword | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon sword=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | participle · passive | the point of renegado's scimitar to renegado's throat | upon renegado | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | renegado's life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | lay | present | Pelistes | without sense | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | point | renegado's scimitar to renegado's throat | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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