Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 5
The camp shone gloriously in the setting sun, and resounded with the clash of cymbal, the note of the trumpet, and the neighing of fiery Arabian steeds.
Who acts: camp, cymbal · What happens: shine, resound, neigh, clash, note · To what, where: setting sun, trumpet
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 (camp, cymbal), 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 camp | det |
| 2 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gloriously | gloriously | ADV | _ | 3 shone | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sun | compound |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resounded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 resounded | cc |
| 11 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shone | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 clash | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 clash | det |
| 14 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resounded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 cymbal | case |
| 16 | cymbal | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clash | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 note | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 note | det |
| 19 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clash | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trumpet | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trumpet | det |
| 22 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 note | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 neighing | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 neighing | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 neighing | det |
| 26 | neighing | neigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 resounded | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 steeds | case |
| 28 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 steeds | amod |
| 29 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 steeds | amod |
| 30 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 neighing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the camp | the setting sun | gloriously property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location | |||
| 2 | resound | participle | the camp not said here | with the clash of cymbal and the note of the trumpet | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with clash=Theme | ||||
| 3 | neigh | gerund | the camp not said here | of fiery Arabian steeds | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | clash | cymbal | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | note | the trumpet | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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