Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 4
Pelistes appeared at the banquet clad in sable armour, and with a countenance pale and dejected; for the ills of his country evermore preyed upon his heart.
Who acts: Pelistes, ills · What happens: appear, clad, deject, prey · To what, where: banquet
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 (Pelistes, ills), 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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 banquet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 banquet | det |
| 5 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clad | obl |
| 6 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 armour | case |
| 8 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armour | amod |
| 9 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clad | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pale | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pale | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 countenance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 countenance | det |
| 14 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pale | obl |
| 15 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 appeared | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dejected | cc |
| 17 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 pale | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ills | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ills | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ills | det |
| 21 | ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 preyed | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ills | nmod |
| 25 | evermore | evermore | ADV | _ | 26 preyed | advmod |
| 26 | preyed | prey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 preyed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Pelistes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | clad | past | Pelistes not said here | the banquet | in sable armour | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deject | participle | Pelistes not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | prey | past | the ills of Pelistes's country | upon Pelistes's heart; evermore property | 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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