Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 75
The king and his train hastened back to Toledo, pursued and pelted by the tempest.
Who acts: king · What happens: hasten back, pursue, pelt · To what, where: Toledo
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), 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 | 6 hastened | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 train | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 train | nmod:poss |
| 5 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 king | conj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 hastened | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Toledo | case |
| 9 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pursued | punct |
| 11 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hastened | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pelted | cc |
| 13 | pelted | pelt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pursued | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 tempest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tempest | det |
| 16 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pelted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten back | past | the king and King's train | Toledo | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to toledo=Result | ||||
| 2 | pursue | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pelt | participle | by the tempest | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
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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