Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 49
The prince sank to the earth, covered with wounds, and exhausted by the loss of blood.
Who acts: prince · What happens: sink, cover, exhaust · To what, where: earth
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 earth | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 wounds | case |
| 10 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exhausted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 exhausted | cc |
| 13 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sank | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 loss | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loss | det |
| 16 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exhausted | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loss | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the prince | to the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | the earth not said here | with wounds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exhaust | participle | the prince not said here | by the loss of blood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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