Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 17

We were conducting her to the court of her expecting bridegroom, when a tempest drove us from our course, and compelled us to take refuge on your coast.

Who acts: We, tempest · What happens: conduct, expect, drive, compel, take · To what, where: Tunis, court, us, course, refuge, coast

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, tempest), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 conducting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conducting	aux
3	conducting	conduct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 conducting	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conducting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bridegroom	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bridegroom	nmod:poss
10	expecting	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bridegroom	amod
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drove	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 drove	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tempest	det
15	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drove	nsubj
16	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 conducting	parataxis
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drove	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 course	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 course	nmod:poss
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drove	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 compelled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 compelled	cc
23	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drove	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 compelled	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 compelled	xcomp
27	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 coast	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 coast	nmod:poss
30	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 conducting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	conduct	past · progressive	We	Tunis	the court of Tunis's expecting bridegroom	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to court=Destination
2	expect	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	drive	past	a tempest	us	our course	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme from course=Trajectory
4	compel	past	a tempest not said here	us		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result
5	take	to-infinitive	a tempest not said here	refuge	your coast	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme on coast=Destination

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 17