Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 8
When the veteran came into his presence, he regarded him for a moment with a stern and indignant aspect.
Who acts: veteran · What happens: come, regard · To what, where: presence, Muza
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veteran), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 veteran | det |
| 3 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 regarded | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 regarded | nsubj |
| 10 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 regarded | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regarded | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 aspect | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 aspect | det |
| 17 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 aspect | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 indignant | cc |
| 19 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stern | conj |
| 20 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moment | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the veteran | veteran's presence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | regard | past | veteran | Muza | moment | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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