Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 13
An opportunity at that very time presented itself, to prove the prowess and discretion of the youth.
Who acts: time, opportunity · What happens: present, prove · To what, where: opportunity, prowess
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, opportunity), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 opportunity | det |
| 2 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opportunity | nmod |
| 7 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 presented | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prove | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 prove | mark |
| 11 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prowess | det |
| 13 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 prove | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 discretion | cc |
| 15 | discretion | discretion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prowess | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 youth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discretion | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | participle | that time not said here | opportunity | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | a opportunity at that time | the prowess and discretion of the youth | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Theme |
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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