Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 36
They surrounded their youthful monarch, it is true, with a blaze of military pomp.
Who acts: monarch, military pomp · What happens: surround, be, blaze · To what, where: flood, youthful monarch
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, military pomp), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 monarch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monarch | amod |
| 5 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surrounded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 true | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 true | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 true | cop |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blaze | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blaze | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blaze | det |
| 13 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 true | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pomp | case |
| 15 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pomp | amod |
| 16 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blaze | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | flood | flood's youthful monarch obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | monarch | flood's youthful monarch not said here | with a blaze of military pomp; true property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | blaze | military pomp | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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