Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 1
The grey summits of the rock of Calpe brightened with the first rays of morning, as the Christian army issued forth from its encampment.
What happens: brighten, issue, ray · To what, where: grey summits, Christian army, encampment, morning
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summits | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 summits | amod |
| 3 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rock | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brightened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Calpe | case |
| 8 | Calpe | Calpe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rock | nmod |
| 9 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rays | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rays | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 rays | amod |
| 13 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brightened | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 morning | case |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rays | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 army | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 army | det |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 army | amod |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brightened | dep |
| 21 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 army | acl |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 issued | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 encampment | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 encampment | nmod:poss |
| 25 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 issued | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brighten | participle · passive | the grey summits | of the rock of Calpe; with the first rays of morning; the Christian army dep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with ray=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | issue | participle | the Christian army not said here | army's encampment | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ray | morning | nom ray «phenomenon 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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