Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 4
In the motley army here assembled were warriors of every tribe and nation, that had been united by pact or conquest in the cause of Islam.
Who acts: pact · What happens: assemble, be, unite, cause · To what, where: assembled warriors, cause, motley army, Islam
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pact), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 army | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 army | det |
| 3 | motley | motley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 army | compound |
| 4 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 army | advmod |
| 6 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 warriors | amod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warriors | cop |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 army | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 tribe | det |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warriors | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nation | cc |
| 13 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tribe | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 united | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 united | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 united | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 united | aux:pass |
| 18 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 warriors | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 pact | case |
| 20 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 united | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 conquest | cc |
| 22 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pact | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cause | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cause | det |
| 25 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 united | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Islam | case |
| 27 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 cause | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 army | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | assembled warriors | of every tribe and nation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | unite | past · perfect · passive | pact or conquest | assembled warriors | the cause of Islam | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | cause | Islam | nom cause «event 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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