Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 17
Among them were many horsemen, mounted on fleet Arabian steeds.
What happens: be, mount · To what, where: many horsemen, fleet Arabian steeds
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: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 horsemen | obl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horsemen | cop |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horsemen | amod |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounted | punct |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 horsemen | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 steeds | case |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steeds | amod |
| 10 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steeds | amod |
| 11 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mounted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horsemen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | many horsemen | among troops | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | many horsemen not said here | fleet Arabian steeds | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination |
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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