Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 68
Seeing there was no longer any hope, he seized the bridle of a favourite page who was near him, and who was about spurring for the mountains.
Who acts: Theodomir, favourite page · What happens: see, not be, seize, be, spur · To what, where: hope, bridle
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 (Theodomir, favourite page), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seized | advcl |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Seeing | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 longer | cop |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Seeing | advmod |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 hope | det |
| 7 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridle | det |
| 12 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 page | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 page | det |
| 15 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 page | amod |
| 16 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridle | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 him | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 him | cop |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 page | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spurring | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 spurring | cc |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 spurring | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spurring | aux |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 26 spurring | advmod |
| 26 | spurring | spur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 seized | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 mountains | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mountains | det |
| 29 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 spurring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Theodomir not said here | any hope | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not is | past | long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | Theodomir | the bridle of a favourite page | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a favourite page | near son | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spur | past · progressive | for the mountains; who nsubj; about property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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