Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 16
Twelve thousand men were chosen for this expedition: most of them light Arabian troops, seasoned in warfare, and fitted for hardy and rapid enterprise.
Who acts: most · What happens: choose, troops, season, fit · To what, where: thousand men, light Arabian troops, warfare
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chosen | aux:pass |
| 5 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 expedition | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 expedition | det |
| 8 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chosen | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 troops | punct |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 troops | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 most | nmod |
| 13 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 troops | amod |
| 14 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 troops | amod |
| 15 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 expedition | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seasoned | punct |
| 17 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 troops | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 warfare | case |
| 19 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seasoned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fitted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fitted | cc |
| 22 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chosen | parataxis |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 enterprise | case |
| 24 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 enterprise | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rapid | cc |
| 26 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hardy | conj |
| 27 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fitted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | thousand men | for this expedition | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for expedition=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | troops | most of men | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | season | participle | light Arabian troops not said here | warfare | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fit | participle | for hardy enterprise | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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