Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 44
Theodomir had but seventeen hundred men under his command, and these but rudely armed; yet he made a resolute stand against the army of Taric, and defended the pass to the promontory with great valour.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: have, make, defend, command · To what, where: hundred men, command, resolute stand, pass · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Theodomir), 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 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 men | cc |
| 4 | seventeen | seventeen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 men | nummod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 command | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 these | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 these | cc |
| 12 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 had | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 armed | cc |
| 14 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 15 armed | advmod |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 these | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stand | det |
| 21 | resolute | resolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 stand | amod |
| 22 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Taric | case |
| 27 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 army | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 defended | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 defended | cc |
| 30 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pass | det |
| 32 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 defended | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 promontory | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 promontory | det |
| 35 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 defended | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 valour | case |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 valour | amod |
| 38 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 promontory | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Theodomir | hundred men | Theodomir's command | these obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make | past | Theodomir | a resolute stand | against the army of Taric | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Product | |||
| 3 | defend | past | the pass | to the promontory with great valour | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | command | Theodomir | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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