Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 9
I saw his head and surcoat upon a Moorish lance; and the army was overthrown and fled!”
Who acts: I · What happens: see, overthrow, flee · To what, where: head, army
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 surcoat | cc |
| 6 | surcoat | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 lance | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lance | det |
| 9 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lance | amod |
| 10 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 overthrown | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 overthrown | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 overthrown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overthrown | aux:pass |
| 16 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fled | cc |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 overthrown | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 overthrown | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 overthrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | prince's head and surcoat | upon a Moorish lance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | overthrow | past · passive | the army | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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