Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 33
Wherever he came he was hailed with acclamations as a victorious general, and appeared in the presence of his sovereign radiant with the victory at Ceuta.
Who acts: treason · What happens: come, hail, appear · To what, where: treason, presence
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: who acts (treason), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hailed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hailed | aux:pass |
| 6 | hailed | hail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 acclamations | case |
| 8 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hailed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 general | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 general | det |
| 11 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 general | amod |
| 12 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hailed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | cc |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 presence | det |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 radiant | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 radiant | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 radiant | compound |
| 22 | radiant | radiant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presence | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 victory | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 victory | det |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Ceuta | case |
| 27 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 victory | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | treason | wherever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hail | past · passive | treason | with acclamations; as a victorious general | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as general=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | treason not said here | the presence of treason's sovereign radiant | with the victory at Ceuta | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in presence=Location |
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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