Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 29
King Roderick came forth, attended by the chivalry of his court, to receive the royal captive.
Who acts: King · What happens: come, attend, receive · To what, where: royal captive
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 attended | punct |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 chivalry | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chivalry | det |
| 9 | chivalry | chivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 court | nmod:poss |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chivalry | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 receive | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 receive | mark |
| 15 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 captive | det |
| 17 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 captive | amod |
| 18 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receive | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attend | participle | King not said here | by the chivalry of Toledo's court | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by chivalry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | King not said here | the royal captive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme |
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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