Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 17
On every side were heard shouts of exultation mingled with praises of Count Julian.
What happens: hear, shout, mingle, praise · To what, where: side, exultation, Count Julian
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shouts | advcl |
| 6 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 exultation | case |
| 8 | exultation | exultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouts | obl |
| 9 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 exultation | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 praises | case |
| 11 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mingled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Julian | case |
| 13 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Julian | compound |
| 14 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 praises | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | every side | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | of exultation | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | exultation not said here | with praises of Count Julian | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with praise=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | praise | Count Julian | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=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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