Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 24
Count Julian galloped into the city mounted upon a powerful charger, himself and his steed all covered with mail.
Who acts: you, Julian · What happens: count, gallop, mount, cover · To what, where: city, powerful charger, Julian
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 (you, Julian), 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 galloped | nsubj |
| 3 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | ccomp |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 galloped | obl |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 city | acl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 charger | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 charger | det |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 charger | amod |
| 11 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 covered | punct |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 steed | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 steed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 himself | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mail | case |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 covered | obl | ||
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | gallop | past | Julian | the city | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into city=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | the city not said here | a powerful charger | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon charger=Destination | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle · passive | Julian | with mail | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mail=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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