Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 20
Even the hearts of the Arab warriors were touched by the lament of the good Pelistes, and they said—“Who was this peerless friend, in whose praise thou art so fervent?”
Who acts: lament, Pelistes, peerless friend · What happens: touch, say, be, lament, praise · To what, where: hearts, peerless friend, good Pelistes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lament, Pelistes, peerless friend), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 hearts | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hearts | det |
| 3 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 warriors | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warriors | det |
| 6 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warriors | amod |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hearts | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 touched | aux:pass |
| 9 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 lament | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lament | det |
| 12 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touched | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Pelistes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pelistes | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Pelistes | amod |
| 16 | Pelistes | Peliste | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 lament | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 touched | conj |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 friend | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 friend | punct |
| 23 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 friend | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 friend | cop |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 friend | nsubj |
| 26 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 friend | amod |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 art | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 praise | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 praise | case |
| 30 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 31 praise | nmod:poss |
| 31 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 friend | conj |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 praise | obj |
| 33 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 fervent | advmod |
| 35 | fervent | fervent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 art | xcomp |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | the lament of the good Pelistes | the hearts of the Arab warriors | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Pelistes = peliste | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | peerless friend and peerless friend and peerless friend's praise thou's praise thou | Who nsubj; this nsubj; peerless friend and peerless friend and praise's praise thou's praise thou conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lament | the good Pelistes | nom lament «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | praise in a quote | peerless friend and peerless friend and praise thou's praise thou | nom praise «communication transitive»: 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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