Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 9
“Behold,” cried they, “the veritable conqueror of the unbelievers!
What happens: cry · To what, where: purses
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Behold | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Behold | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conqueror | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 conqueror | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conqueror | det |
| 10 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conqueror | amod |
| 11 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 unbelievers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 unbelievers | det |
| 14 | unbelievers | unbeliever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 conqueror | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | purses = purse | the veritable conqueror of the unbelievers obl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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