Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 23
The foremost among these recreant warriors was the renegado cavalier whom Theodomir had challenged in the tent of Taric.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: be, challenge · To what, where: foremost renegado cavalier, tent
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 (Theodomir), 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 | 2 foremost | det |
| 2 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cavalier | amod |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 warriors | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 warriors | det |
| 5 | recreant | recreant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warriors | amod |
| 6 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 foremost | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cavalier | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cavalier | det |
| 9 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cavalier | compound |
| 10 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 challenged | obj |
| 12 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 challenged | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 challenged | aux |
| 14 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 cavalier | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tent | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tent | det |
| 17 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 challenged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Taric | case |
| 19 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tent | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cavalier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the foremost renegado cavalier | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | challenge | past · perfect | Theodomir | the foremost renegado cavalier | the tent of Taric | tree rules |
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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