Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 6
The words of the prince were received with shouts, and the army moved towards the promontory.
Who acts: army · What happens: receive, shout, move, word · To what, where: words, promontory, prince
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 (army), 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 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 received | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 received | aux:pass |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 shouts | case |
| 9 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 received | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moved | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 army | det |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 received | conj |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 promontory | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 promontory | det |
| 17 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | the words of the prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | move | past | the army | the promontory | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards promontory=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | word | the prince | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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