Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 4
The infidel host was far inferior in number to the Christians; but then it was composed of hardy and dexterous troops, seasoned to war, and admirably armed.
Who acts: infidel host · What happens: be, compose, season · To what, where: number, host
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infidel host), 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 host | det |
| 2 | infidel | infidel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 host | compound |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inferior | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inferior | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 inferior | advmod |
| 6 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inferior | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Christians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Christians | det |
| 11 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 composed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 composed | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 composed | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 composed | aux:pass |
| 17 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 inferior | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 troops | case |
| 19 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 troops | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dexterous | cc |
| 21 | dexterous | dexterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hardy | conj |
| 22 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 composed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seasoned | punct |
| 24 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 composed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 war | case |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seasoned | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 armed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 armed | cc |
| 29 | admirably | admirably | ADV | _ | 30 armed | advmod |
| 30 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 inferior | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inferior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the infidel host | number to the Christians | far, inferior property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | compose | past · passive | host | then | of hardy troops | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||
| 3 | season | participle | to war | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | the infidel host not said here | admirably property | 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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