Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 16
The king alighted, and, approaching the portals, ordered the guardians to unlock the gate.
Who acts: king, guardians · What happens: alight, approach, order, unlock · To what, where: king, portals, guardians, gate
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, guardians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 approaching | punct |
| 7 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 ordered | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 portals | det |
| 9 | portals | portal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 approaching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 approaching | punct |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guardians | det |
| 13 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 unlock | mark |
| 15 | unlock | unlock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 unlock | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | the portals | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portal=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the king | the guardians | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent guardian=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | unlock not said to happen | to-infinitive | the guardians not said here | the gate | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
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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