Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 51
They stanched the blood that flowed from his wounds, and washed the dust from his face, and laid him beside the fountain.
Who acts: pages, blood, Prince · What happens: stanch, flow, wash, lay, wound · To what, where: blood, wounds, dust, face, Prince, fountain
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 (pages, blood, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stanched | nsubj |
| 2 | stanched | stanch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stanched | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 flowed | nsubj |
| 6 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blood | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 wounds | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 washed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 washed | cc |
| 12 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stanched | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dust | det |
| 14 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 face | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laid | cc |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stanched | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obj |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 fountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fountain | det |
| 24 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stanched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stanch | past | pages = page | the blood | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the blood | Prince's wounds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | pages = page not said here | the dust | Prince's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from face=Source | |||
| 4 | lay | past | pages = page not said here | Prince | the fountain | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme beside fountain=Destination | |||
| 5 | wound | Prince | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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