Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 84
He mounted his fleet steed, sped his way across the bridge, and soon left behind him the verdant valley of the Tagus.
Who acts: father · What happens: mount, speed, leave · To what, where: fleet steed, way, bridge, verdant valley
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steed | amod |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sped | punct |
| 7 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | obj |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 left | advmod |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mounted | parataxis |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 valley | det |
| 20 | verdant | verdant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 valley | amod |
| 21 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Tagus | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tagus | det |
| 24 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 valley | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | father | father's fleet steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speed | past | father not said here | father's way | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme across bridge=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leave | participle | the verdant valley of the Tagus | behind father; soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent valley=Theme behind he=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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