Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 26
When the last bolt had yielded to the key, the guardians and the reverend archbishop again entreated the king to pause and reflect.
Who acts: reverend archbishop · What happens: yield, entreat, pause, reflect · To what, where: last bolt, key, king
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 (reverend archbishop), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 yielded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bolt | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bolt | amod |
| 4 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yielded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 yielded | aux |
| 6 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 key | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 key | det |
| 9 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yielded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guardians | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 guardians | det |
| 12 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 key | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 entreated | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 archbishop | det |
| 15 | reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 archbishop | compound |
| 16 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entreated | nsubj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 entreated | advmod |
| 18 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 yielded | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entreated | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pause | mark |
| 22 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 entreated | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reflect | cc |
| 24 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pause | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past · perfect · passive | the last bolt | to the key and the guardians goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to key=Goal | ||||
| 2 | entreat | past | the reverend archbishop | the king | again | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | pause | to-infinitive | the reverend archbishop not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reflect | infinitive | the reverend archbishop not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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