Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 62
Taric immediately ordered that the head should be put upon the end of a lance, together with the surcoat of the prince, and borne about the field of battle, with the sound of trumpets, atabels, and cymbals.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: order, put, bear · To what, where: head, end
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 (Taric), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lance | det |
| 15 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 surcoat | punct |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 surcoat | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 surcoat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 surcoat | det |
| 20 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surcoat | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 borne | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 borne | cc |
| 26 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 field | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 field | det |
| 29 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 borne | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 battle | case |
| 31 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 field | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sound | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sound | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sound | det |
| 35 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 borne | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 trumpets | case |
| 37 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sound | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 atabels | punct |
| 39 | atabels | atabel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 trumpets | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 cymbals | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 cymbals | cc |
| 42 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 trumpets | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Taric | immediately property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | should · passive | the head | upon the end of a lance | with the surcoat of the prince | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon end=Destination | |||
| 3 | bear | participle | Taric not said here | about the field of battle; the sound of trumpets and atabels and cymbals parataxis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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