Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 18
If fallen in battle, and I knew where his bones were laid, whether bleaching on the plains of Xeres, or buried in the waters of the Guadalete, I would seek them out and enshrine them as the relics of a sainted patriot.
Who acts: I · What happens: fall, know, lay, bleach, bury, seek out · To what, where: battle, bones, plains, waters
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 fallen | mark |
| 2 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 seek | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fallen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fallen | conj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 laid | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laid | aux:pass |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 knew | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bleaching | punct |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 bleaching | mark |
| 16 | bleaching | bleach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 laid | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 plains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plains | det |
| 19 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bleaching | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Xeres | case |
| 21 | Xeres | Xeres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 plains | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 buried | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 buried | cc |
| 24 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 plains | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 waters | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 waters | det |
| 27 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 buried | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Guadalete | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Guadalete | det |
| 30 | Guadalete | Guadalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 waters | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fallen | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 seek | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 seek | aux |
| 34 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 seek | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 seek | compound:prt |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 enshrine | cc |
| 38 | enshrine | enshrine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 seek | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 enshrine | obj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 relics | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 relics | det |
| 42 | relics | relic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 enshrine | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 patriot | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 patriot | det |
| 45 | sainted | saint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 patriot | amod |
| 46 | patriot | patriot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 relics | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | participle | I not said here | battle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in battle=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | lay | past · passive | man's bones | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | bleach | gerund | the plains of Xeres | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bury | participle | the plains of Xeres not said here | the waters of the Guadalete | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination | ||||
| 6 | seek out | would | I | bones = bone | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | enshrine | infinitive | I not said here | bones = bone | as the relics of a sainted patriot | tree rules | |||
| 8 | saint | participle | tree rules |
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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