Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 2
The Prince Ataulpho rode from squadron to squadron, animating his soldiers for the battle.
Who acts: Ataulpho · What happens: ride, animate · To what, where: squadron, soldiers
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 (Ataulpho), 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 Ataulpho | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ataulpho | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Ataulpho | Ataulpho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | nsubj |
| 4 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 squadron | case |
| 6 | squadron | squadron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 squadron | case |
| 8 | squadron | squadron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 animating | punct |
| 10 | animating | animate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 rode | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 animating | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 battle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 battle | det |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 animating | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the Ataulpho Prince | squadron | to squadron | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from squadron=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | animate | gerund | the Ataulpho Prince not said here | Ataulpho's soldiers | for the battle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
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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