Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 51
Magued then unlaced the helmet of his vanquished enemy, and seated himself on a rock beside him, to recover breath.
Who acts: Magued · What happens: unlace, vanquish, seat, recover · To what, where: helmet, Magued, rock, breath
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 (Magued), 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 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 unlaced | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 unlaced | advmod |
| 3 | unlaced | unlace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 helmet | det |
| 5 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unlaced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 enemy | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 enemy | amod |
| 9 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 helmet | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seated | cc |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unlaced | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 seated | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seated | obl |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seated | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recover | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 recover | mark |
| 21 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seated | conj |
| 22 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recover | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unlaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlace | past | Magued | the helmet of Magued's vanquished enemy | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient | |||
| 2 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | seat | past | Magued | a rock | beside Magued | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 4 | recover | to-infinitive | breath | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
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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