Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 46
The field where this great army assembled was called, from the solemn pledge given by the nobles and the soldiery, _El campo de la verdad_; or, The field of Truth; a name, says the sage chronicler Abul Cassim, which it bears even to the present day.
Who acts: field, name · What happens: assemble, call, give, say, bear · To what, where: great army, solemn pledge, sage chronicler · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (field, name), 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 field | det |
| 2 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 says | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 called | advmod |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 army | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 army | amod |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 army | acl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 field | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pledge | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 pledge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pledge | det |
| 13 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pledge | amod |
| 14 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pledge | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 nobles | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nobles | det |
| 18 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 soldiery | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldiery | det |
| 21 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nobles | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 campo | punct |
| 23 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 El | compound |
| 24 | El | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 campo | compound |
| 25 | campo | campo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pledge | conj |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 campo | flat:foreign |
| 27 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 28 verdad | compound |
| 28 | verdad | verdad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 campo | conj |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 field | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 field | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 or | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 field | det |
| 34 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 says | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Truth | case |
| 36 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 field | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 name | punct |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 name | det |
| 39 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 says | nsubj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 name | punct |
| 41 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 chronicler | det |
| 43 | sage | sage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 chronicler | amod |
| 44 | chronicler | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 says | obj |
| 45 | Abul | Abul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 chronicler | appos |
| 46 | Cassim | Cassim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Abul | flat |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 bears | punct |
| 48 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 50 bears | det |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 bears | nsubj |
| 50 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 chronicler | conj |
| 51 | even | even | ADV | _ | 55 day | advmod |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 day | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 day | det |
| 54 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 day | amod |
| 55 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 bears | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | this great army not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | this great army | the solemn pledge and El campo and la verdad xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | the solemn pledge and El campo and la verdad not said here | by the nobles and the soldiery | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the field | the sage chronicler and which bears | a name nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chronicler=Topic | |||
| 5 | bear | name | day | tree rules |
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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