Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 83
He bore in his beak a burning brand, and lighting on the summit of the tower, fanned the fire with his wings.
Who acts: eagle, lighting · What happens: bear, burn, fan · To what, where: burning brand, beak, fire
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 (eagle, lighting), 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 bore | nsubj |
| 2 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 beak | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 brand | det |
| 7 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 brand | amod |
| 8 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fanned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fanned | cc |
| 11 | lighting | lighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fanned | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 summit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 summit | det |
| 14 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lighting | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tower | det |
| 17 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summit | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lighting | punct |
| 19 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bore | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fanned | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 wings | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wings | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fanned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | eagle | a burning brand | eagle's beak | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brand=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fan | past | lighting on the summit of the tower | the fire | with eagle's wings | tree rules |
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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