Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 30
He knew the importance, where complaints were to be heard, of being first in presence of the judge; beside, he was ever ready to march at a moment’s warning, and had nothing to impede him in his movements.
Who acts: Cadiz, moment · What happens: know, hear, be, march, have, impede · To what, where: importance, complaints, warning, nothing, Cadiz, movements
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadiz, moment), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 importance | det |
| 4 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 heard | advmod |
| 7 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 importance | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 presence | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 presence | cop |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 presence | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 judge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 judge | det |
| 20 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 presence | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 ready | punct |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 ready | mark |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beside | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 ready | advmod |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knew | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 march | mark |
| 29 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 ready | xcomp |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 warning | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 warning | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 moment | case |
| 34 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 march | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 had | cc |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 had | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 impede | mark |
| 40 | impede | impede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 nothing | acl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 impede | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 movements | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 movements | nmod:poss |
| 44 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 impede | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Cadiz | the importance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer importance=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | Cadiz not said here | complaints | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Cadiz not said here | of presence; of the judge; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Cadiz | ever | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | march | to-infinitive | Cadiz not said here | a moment's warning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at warning=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | have | past | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||||
| 7 | impede | to-infinitive | Cadiz | Cadiz's movements | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | warn | a moment | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | move | Cadiz | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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