Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 6
There were Saracen and Tartar, Syrian and Copt, and swarthy Moor; sumptuous warriors from the civilised cities of the east, and the gaunt and predatory rovers of the desert.
Who acts: Saracen · What happens: be, civilise
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 (Saracen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Saracen | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Tartar | cc |
| 5 | Tartar | Tartar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Saracen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Syrian | punct |
| 7 | Syrian | Syrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Saracen | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Copt | cc |
| 9 | Copt | Copt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Syrian | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Moor | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Moor | cc |
| 12 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Moor | amod |
| 13 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 warriors | punct |
| 15 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 warriors | amod |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 cities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cities | det |
| 19 | civilised | civilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cities | amod |
| 20 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 warriors | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 east | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 east | det |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cities | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rovers | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rovers | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rovers | det |
| 27 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 rovers | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 predatory | cc |
| 29 | predatory | predatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gaunt | conj |
| 30 | rovers | rover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 warriors | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 desert | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 desert | det |
| 33 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rovers | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Saracen and Tartar | there | swarthy Moor conj; sumptuous warriors from the civilised cities of the east and the gaunt rovers of the desert nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | civilise | participle | tree rules |
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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