Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 44
There were jousts, and tourneys, and banquets, and other rejoicings, which lasted twenty days, and were attended by the principal nobles from all parts of Spain.
Who acts: jousts, other rejoicings, principal nobles · What happens: be, last, attend
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 (jousts, other rejoicings, principal nobles), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | jousts | joust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tourneys | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tourneys | cc |
| 6 | tourneys | tourney | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jousts | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 banquets | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 banquets | cc |
| 9 | banquets | banquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jousts | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rejoicings | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rejoicings | cc |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rejoicings | amod |
| 13 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lasted | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lasted | nsubj |
| 16 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rejoicings | acl:relcl |
| 17 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 days | nummod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attended | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 attended | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 attended | aux:pass |
| 22 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lasted | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 nobles | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nobles | det |
| 25 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 nobles | amod |
| 26 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 attended | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 parts | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 parts | det |
| 29 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 nobles | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Spain | case |
| 31 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 parts | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | jousts and tourneys and banquets | there | other rejoicings nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | last | past | other rejoicings | day | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | attend | past · passive | the principal nobles from all parts of Spain | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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