Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 44
At the same moment a javelin, hurled by an Arab, transpierced the horse of Ataulpho, which sunk beneath him.
Who acts: Ataulpho · What happens: hurl, transpierc, sink · To what, where: javelin
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 javelin | det |
| 6 | javelin | javelin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moment | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurled | punct |
| 8 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 javelin | acl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 horse | mark |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 11 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 transpierced | punct |
| 13 | transpierced | transpierc | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 horse | amod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hurled | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Ataulpho | case |
| 17 | Ataulpho | Ataulpho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 horse | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sunk | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sunk | nsubj |
| 20 | sunk | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Ataulpho | acl:relcl |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sunk | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | participle | a javelin not said here | a Arab transpierced horse of Ataulpho advcl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | transpierc | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | Ataulpho | beneath Ataulpho | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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