Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 51
The venerable archbishop laid his hand upon his arm, and made a last remonstrance.
Who acts: venerable archbishop · What happens: lay, make · To what, where: hand, arm, last remonstrance
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 (venerable 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 archbishop | det |
| 2 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 archbishop | amod |
| 3 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 arm | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arm | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 remonstrance | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 remonstrance | amod |
| 15 | remonstrance | remonstrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the venerable archbishop | archbishop's hand | archbishop's arm | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon arm=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | the venerable archbishop not said here | a last remonstrance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remonstrance=Product |
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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