Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 65
The Moslems then returned, and plundered the Christian camp, where they found abundant spoil.
Who acts: Moslems · What happens: return, plunder, find · To what, where: Christian camp, abundant spoil
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 (Moslems), 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 Moslems | det |
| 2 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 plundered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 plundered | cc |
| 7 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 camp | amod |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plundered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 found | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 camp | acl:relcl |
| 15 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spoil | amod |
| 16 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Moslems | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunder | past | the Moslems not said here | the Christian camp | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Source | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Moslems = moslem | abundant spoil | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Topic |
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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