Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 27
The cavaliers remained for some time plunged in horror and consternation.
Who acts: cavaliers · What happens: remain, plunge · To what, where: time
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavaliers), 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 cavaliers | det |
| 2 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 horror | case |
| 9 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plunged | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 consternation | cc |
| 11 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horror | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the cavaliers | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | some time not said here | in horror and consternation | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in horror=Attribute |
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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