Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 14
The Christian troops, though irregular and undisciplined, were full of native courage; for the old warrior spirit of their Gothic sires still glowed in their bosoms.
Who acts: sires · What happens: be, glow, bosom · To what, where: bosoms, Christian troops
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 (sires), 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 troops | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troops | amod |
| 3 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 irregular | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 irregular | mark |
| 6 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 troops | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 undisciplined | cc |
| 8 | undisciplined | undisciplined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 irregular | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 irregular | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 courage | case |
| 13 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 courage | amod |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 glowed | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 spirit | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spirit | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirit | amod |
| 19 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spirit | compound |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 glowed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sires | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sires | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sires | amod |
| 24 | sires | sire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spirit | nmod |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 glowed | advmod |
| 26 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 irregular | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bosoms | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 glowed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 troops | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of native courage; full property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glow | past | sires's bosoms | still | for the old warrior spirit of troops's Gothic sires | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bosom=Location | |||
| 4 | bosom | sires = sire | nom bosom «state 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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