Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 32
The Christian leaders and most conspicuous cavaliers were singled out, and severally assailed by overpowering numbers.
What happens: single out, assail, overpower · To what, where: Christian leaders, numbers
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: 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 leaders | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leaders | amod |
| 3 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 singled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cavaliers | cc |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 conspicuous | advmod |
| 6 | conspicuous | conspicuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cavaliers | amod |
| 7 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaders | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 singled | aux:pass |
| 9 | singled | single | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 singled | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assailed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 assailed | cc |
| 13 | severally | severally | ADV | _ | 14 assailed | advmod |
| 14 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 singled | conj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 overpowering | mark |
| 16 | overpowering | overpower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 assailed | advcl |
| 17 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overpowering | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 singled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | single out | past · passive | the Christian leaders and conspicuous cavaliers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | assail | participle | severally property | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | overpower | gerund | numbers | 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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