Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 11
He was mounted on a superb Andalusian charger, richly caparisoned with crimson velvet, embroidered with gold.
What happens: mount, caparison, embroider · To what, where: Ataulpho, superb Andalusian charger, crimson velvet
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux:pass |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 charger | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 charger | det |
| 6 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charger | amod |
| 7 | Andalusian | Andalusian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 charger | compound |
| 8 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caparisoned | punct |
| 10 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 11 caparisoned | advmod |
| 11 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mounted | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 velvet | case |
| 13 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 velvet | amod |
| 14 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caparisoned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 embroidered | punct |
| 16 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 velvet | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 embroidered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Ataulpho | a superb Andalusian charger | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on charger=Destination | ||||
| 2 | caparison | participle | with crimson velvet; richly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | crimson velvet not said here | with gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
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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