Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 90
They saw the armada of the emir at a distance, and hoped to be able to hold out until its arrival.
Who acts: squares, distance · What happens: see, hope, be, hold out, arrive · To what, where: armada · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (squares, distance), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 armada | det |
| 4 | armada | Armada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 emir | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 emir | det |
| 7 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 armada | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 distance | det |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 emir | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hoped | cc |
| 13 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 able | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hoped | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hold | mark |
| 18 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hold | compound:prt |
| 20 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 arrival | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | squares = square | the armada of the emir at a distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer armada=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hope | past | squares = square not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold out | to-infinitive | until distance's arrival | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | arrive | distance | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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