Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 12
His surcoat was of like colour and adornment, and the plumes that waved above his burnished helmet were of the purest white.
Who acts: surcoat, plumes · What happens: be, wave, burnish · To what, where: burnished helmet
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: who acts (surcoat, plumes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 surcoat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colour | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 colour | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 colour | case |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 colour | case |
| 6 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 adornment | cc |
| 8 | adornment | adornment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colour | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 white | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 white | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plumes | det |
| 12 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 white | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 waved | nsubj |
| 14 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 plumes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 helmet | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 helmet | amod |
| 18 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waved | obl |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 white | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 white | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 white | det |
| 22 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 white | amod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colour | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 colour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ataulpho's surcoat | of colour and adornment; adornment conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wave | past | the plumes | Ataulpho's burnished helmet | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above helmet=Location | ||||
| 3 | burnish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the plumes | white property | tree rules |
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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