Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 33
“Count Julian was a noble Gothic knight; but thou appearest in mongrel Moorish garb.
Who acts: you, Julian, thou · What happens: count, be, appear · To what, where: noble Gothic knight, mongrel Moorish garb · 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 (you, Julian, thou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Count | punct |
| 2 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knight | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knight | amod |
| 7 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knight | amod |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Count | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 appearest | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 appearest | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 appearest | nsubj |
| 12 | appearest | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Count | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garb | case |
| 14 | mongrel | mongrel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 garb | amod |
| 15 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 garb | amod |
| 16 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appearest | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Julian | a noble Gothic knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | appear in a quote | present | thou | mongrel Moorish garb | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garb=Location |
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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