Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 25
A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to wait upon her as a mere guard of honour.
Who acts: chosen band · What happens: choose, appear, wait
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 (chosen band), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 band | det |
| 2 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 band | amod |
| 3 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 horsemen | case |
| 5 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horsemen | amod |
| 6 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 band | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 armed | punct |
| 8 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 9 armed | advmod |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horsemen | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 band | punct |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wait | mark |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 appeared | xcomp |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 guard | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 guard | det |
| 18 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 guard | amod |
| 19 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wait | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guard | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | appear | past | a chosen band of Christian horsemen | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | a chosen band of Christian horsemen not said here | upon band; as a mere guard of honour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |
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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