Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 53
Finding there was yet life in the Christian knight, they laid him upon one of their horses, and, aiding Magued to remount his steed, proceeded slowly to the city.
Who acts: warriors · What happens: find, be, lay, aid, remount, proceed · To what, where: Magued, steed · 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 (warriors), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laid | advcl |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Finding | ccomp |
| 4 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 life | cc |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 knight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knight | amod |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finding | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 laid | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 horses | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aiding | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 aiding | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aiding | punct |
| 22 | aiding | aid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laid | advcl |
| 23 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 aiding | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 remount | mark |
| 25 | remount | remount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 aiding | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steed | nmod:poss |
| 27 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 remount | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeded | punct |
| 29 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | conj |
| 30 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 29 proceeded | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 city | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proceeded | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | warriors = warrior not said here | life in the Christian knight conj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | warriors = warrior | Magued | upon one of warriors's horses | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon one=Destination | |||
| 4 | aid | gerund | warriors = warrior not said here | Magued | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent magued=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remount | to-infinitive | warriors = warrior not said here | Magued's steed | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | proceed | past | warriors = warrior not said here | to the city; slowly property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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