Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 20
The discreet Ayub saw the danger into which he was falling.
Who acts: discreet Ayub, Ayub · What happens: see, fall · To what, where: danger
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discreet Ayub, Ayub), 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 | 3 Ayub | det |
| 2 | discreet | discreet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ayub | amod |
| 3 | Ayub | Ayub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 danger | det |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 falling | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 falling | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 falling | aux |
| 11 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 danger | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the discreet Ayub | the danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | Ayub | the danger | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |
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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