Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 33
They fought desperately, and performed miracles of prowess; but fell, one by one, beneath a thousand wounds.
Who acts: leaders · What happens: fight, perform, fall · To what, where: miracles, one
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 (leaders), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 2 fought | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 performed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 performed | cc |
| 6 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 7 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 performed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 prowess | case |
| 9 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 miracles | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fell | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wounds | punct |
| 18 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 21 wounds | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thousand | det |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 wounds | nummod |
| 21 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | leaders = leader | desperately property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | perform | past | leaders = leader not said here | miracles of prowess | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miracle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | leaders = leader not said here | one | by one; beneath thousand wounds | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result |
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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