Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 3
When he was recovered from his wounds they gave him a magnificent banquet, to testify their admiration of his virtues.
Who acts: wounds, Pelistes · What happens: recover, give, testify, wound, admire · To what, where: Pelistes, wounds, magnificent banquet, admiration, virtues
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 (wounds, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | aux:pass |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wounds | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recovered | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 banquet | det |
| 12 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 banquet | amod |
| 13 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 testify | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 testify | mark |
| 16 | testify | testify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gave | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 18 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 testify | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 virtues | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 21 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 admiration | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · passive | Pelistes | Pelistes's wounds | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from wound=Source | ||||
| 2 | give | past | wounds = wound | a magnificent banquet | Pelistes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient banquet=Theme | |||
| 3 | testify speech: other | to-infinitive | wounds = wound not said here | wounds's admiration of Pelistes's virtues | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wound | Pelistes | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | admire | wounds = wound | Pelistes's virtues | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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