Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 9
In the meantime the Moorish bark came rolling and pitching towards the land.
Who acts: Moorish bark · What happens: come, roll, pitch · To what, where: meantime, land
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 (Moorish bark), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bark | det |
| 5 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bark | amod |
| 6 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pitching | cc |
| 10 | pitching | pitch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 rolling | conj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pitching | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Moorish bark | the meantime | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | the Moorish bark not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pitch | gerund | the Moorish bark not said here | the land | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent towards land=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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