Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 1
The scattered fugitives of the Christian army spread terror throughout the land.
Who acts: scattered fugitives · What happens: spread · To what, where: terror, land
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scattered fugitives), 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 | 3 fugitives | det |
| 2 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 3 fugitives | amod |
| 3 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 army | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 6 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 army | amod |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fugitives | nmod |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obj |
| 10 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the scattered fugitives of the Christian army | terror | the land | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent terror=Theme throughout land=Destination |
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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