Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 17
A number of ancient and venerable men presented themselves at his tent, offering submission and imploring mercy; for none were left in the place but the old, the infirm, and the miserable.
Who acts: number · What happens: present, offer, implore, leave · To what, where: men, tent, submission, mercy, place
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 4 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 venerable | cc |
| 6 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ancient | conj |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 presented | nsubj |
| 8 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 presented | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 tent | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tent | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 offering | punct |
| 14 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 presented | advcl |
| 15 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offering | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 imploring | cc |
| 17 | imploring | implore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 offering | conj |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imploring | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 none | case |
| 21 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 left | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 presented | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 left | obl |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 old | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 old | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 infirm | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 infirm | det |
| 32 | infirm | infirm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 miserable | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 miserable | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 miserable | det |
| 36 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | a number | men = man | Muza's tent | ancient men nsubj | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||
| 2 | offer | gerund | a number not said here | submission | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent submission=Theme | ||||
| 3 | implore | gerund | a number not said here | mercy | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | in the place result; for none | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: in place=Result |
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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