Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 40

Count Julian issued out of the gate of the city, followed by a shining band of chosen followers, while beside him, on a palfrey, rode the pale and weeping Florinda.

Who acts: you, Julian · What happens: count, issue, follow, shine, choose, ride · To what, where: gate, city, Florinda

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 (you, Julian), 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	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 issued	nsubj
3	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	ccomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 gate	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 issued	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 city	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 city	det
10	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 followed	punct
12	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 city	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 band	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 band	det
15	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 band	amod
16	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 followed	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 followers	case
18	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 followers	amod
19	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 band	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 him	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 him	mark
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 palfrey	punct
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 palfrey	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 palfrey	det
27	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Count	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rode	punct
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pale	det
31	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rode	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 weeping	cc
33	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 rode	conj
34	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 weeping	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here			on a palfrey; JULIAN parataxis	tree rules
2	issue	past	Julian		the gate of the city		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out gate=Location
3	follow	participle		the city not said here		by a shining band of chosen followers	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by band=Location
4	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	choose	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	ride	past				pale property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	weep	gerund		Florinda			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent florinda=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 40

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 40