Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 54
As the convoy passed by the convent, the cavaliers looked forth and beheld their commander borne along bleeding and a captive.
Who acts: cavaliers · What happens: pass, look, behold, bear · To what, where: convoy, commander
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 (cavaliers), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 convoy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 convoy | det |
| 3 | convoy | convoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 convoy | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 convent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 convent | det |
| 7 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 convoy | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cavaliers | det |
| 10 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 looked | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beheld | cc |
| 14 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 commander | nmod:poss |
| 16 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beheld | obj |
| 17 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 commander | acl |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 19 bleeding | case |
| 19 | bleeding | bleeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 borne | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 captive | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 captive | det |
| 22 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bleeding | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | the convoy not said here | by the convent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by convent=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the cavaliers | as the convoy; forth property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | the cavaliers not said here | cavaliers's commander | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer commander=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bear | participle | cavaliers's commander not said here | along bleeding and a captive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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