Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 56
Skirmishing of the Armies.—Pelistes and his Son.—Pelistes and the Bishop 129
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. 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 | Skirmishing | skirmishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Armies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Armies | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Armies | det |
| 4 | Armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Armies | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pelistes | punct |
| 7 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Armies | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Son | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pelistes | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Armies | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pelistes | punct |
| 13 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Armies | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Bishop | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bishop | det |
| 16 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Pelistes | conj |
| 17 | 129 | 129 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Bishop | flat |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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