Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 27
In a little while there were gathered together, on the plain of Cordova, near fifty thousand horsemen, and a countless host of foot-soldiers.
What happens: gather
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 gathered | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 gathered | expl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gathered | aux:pass |
| 7 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 little | advcl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 gathered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plain | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 plain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plain | det |
| 12 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gathered | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Cordova | case |
| 14 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 plain | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 horsemen | punct |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 thousand | advmod |
| 17 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thousand | compound |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 horsemen | nummod |
| 19 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plain | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 host | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 host | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 host | det |
| 23 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 host | amod |
| 24 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plain | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 soldiers | case |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 soldiers | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 foot | punct |
| 28 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 host | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | there | the plain of Cordova thousand horsemen and a countless host of foot soldiers parataxis; together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» |
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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