Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 21
At this moment, they were attacked by a band of Spanish horsemen, the recreant partisans of Count Julian.
Who acts: band · What happens: attack · To what, where: cavaliers
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 (band), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attacked | aux:pass |
| 7 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 band | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 band | det |
| 10 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horsemen | case |
| 12 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horsemen | amod |
| 13 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 band | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 partisans | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 partisans | det |
| 16 | recreant | recreant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 partisans | amod |
| 17 | partisans | partisan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horsemen | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Julian | case |
| 19 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Julian | compound |
| 20 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 partisans | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past · passive | a band of Spanish horsemen and the recreant partisans of Count Julian | cavaliers = cavalier | moment | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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