Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 16
As the armies drew nigh to each other, however, it was discovered that the advance of the Arabs was composed of infantry.
Who acts: armies, Arabs · What happens: draw, discover, compose, advance · To what, where: each, army, advance
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 (armies, Arabs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 drew | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 armies | det |
| 3 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 drew | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discovered | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 14 discovered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discovered | aux:pass |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 drew | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 composed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 advance | det |
| 17 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Arabs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Arabs | det |
| 20 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 advance | nmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 composed | aux:pass |
| 22 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 discovered | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 infantry | case |
| 24 | infantry | infantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 composed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the armies | each | nigh property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to each=Destination | |||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | army | however property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | compose | past · passive | the advance of the Arabs | of infantry | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | advance | the Arabs | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=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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