Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 9
Assembling them one day in the court of the convent, he disclosed to them his purpose.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: assemble, disclose, purpose · To what, where: loyalty, court, purpose
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 | Assembling | assemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 disclosed | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Assembling | obj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assembling | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Assembling | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 convent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 convent | det |
| 10 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 court | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Assembling | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disclosed | nsubj |
| 13 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disclosed | obl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disclosed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 disclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | gerund | Pelistes not said here | loyalty | the court of the convent | day | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | disclose | past | Pelistes | Pelistes's purpose | loyalty | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic to they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | purpose | Pelistes | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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