Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 14
Bending his course westwardly, he made a circuit behind the mountains, and then, advancing into the open country, displayed his banners before Salamanca, which surrendered without resistance.
Who acts: Taric, Salamanca · What happens: bend, make, advance, display, surrender · To what, where: course, circuit, mountains, open country, banners
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, Salamanca), 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 | Bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 course | nmod:poss |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bending | obj |
| 4 | westwardly | westwardly | ADV | _ | 1 Bending | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bending | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 circuit | det |
| 9 | circuit | circuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 circuit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 advancing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 advancing | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 advancing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 advancing | punct |
| 17 | advancing | advance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 20 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 country | amod |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 advancing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 displayed | punct |
| 23 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 banners | nmod:poss |
| 25 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 displayed | obj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 Salamanca | case |
| 27 | Salamanca | Salamanca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 displayed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 surrendered | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 surrendered | nsubj |
| 30 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Salamanca | acl:relcl |
| 31 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 resistance | case |
| 32 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 surrendered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | gerund | Taric not said here | Taric's course | westwardly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent course=Material | |||
| 2 | make | past | Taric | a circuit | the mountains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circuit=Product | |||
| 3 | advance | gerund | Taric not said here | the open country | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | display | past | Taric not said here | Taric's banners | before Salamanca | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banner=Theme | |||
| 5 | surrender | past | Salamanca | without resistance | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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