Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 17
Upon this the cavaliers checked their steeds, and requested that the foot soldiery might advance and disperse this losel crew, holding it beneath their dignity to contend with pedestrian foes.
Who acts: cavaliers, foot soldiery · What happens: check, request, advance, disperse, hold, contend · To what, where: steeds, losel crew, crew, dignity
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 (cavaliers, foot soldiery), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cavaliers | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cavaliers | det |
| 4 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 checked | nsubj |
| 5 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 checked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 requested | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 requested | cc |
| 10 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 checked | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 advance | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldiery | det |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soldiery | compound |
| 14 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advance | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 advance | aux |
| 16 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 requested | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 disperse | cc |
| 18 | disperse | disperse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 advance | conj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 crew | det |
| 20 | losel | losel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crew | compound |
| 21 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disperse | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 holding | punct |
| 23 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 requested | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 holding | obj |
| 25 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 27 dignity | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dignity | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holding | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 contend | mark |
| 29 | contend | contend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 holding | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 foes | case |
| 31 | pedestrian | pedestrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 foes | amod |
| 32 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 contend | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | the cavaliers upon this | cavaliers's steeds | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | request | past | the cavaliers upon this not said here | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | advance | might | the foot soldiery | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | disperse | infinitive | the foot soldiery not said here | this losel crew | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crew=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hold | gerund | the cavaliers upon this not said here | crew | cavaliers's dignity | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme beneath dignity=Location | |||
| 6 | contend | to-infinitive | the cavaliers upon this not said here | with pedestrian foes | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with foe=Co-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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