Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 28
The battle raged until the hour of vespers, when the principal inhabitants held a parley, and capitulated for a surrender.
Who acts: battle, principal inhabitants · What happens: rage, hold, capitulate · To what, where: parley
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 (battle, principal inhabitants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raged | nsubj |
| 3 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raged | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 vespers | case |
| 8 | vespers | vesper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hour | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 held | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 inhabitants | det |
| 12 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 inhabitants | amod |
| 13 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raged | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 parley | det |
| 16 | parley | parley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 capitulated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 capitulated | cc |
| 19 | capitulated | capitulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raged | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 surrender | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 surrender | det |
| 22 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 capitulated | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past | the battle | hour | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the principal inhabitants | a parley | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parley=Theme | ||||
| 3 | capitulate | participle | the battle not said here | for a surrender | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «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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