Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 6
There were swarthy troops from every nation of the African coast, together with legions from Syria and Egypt, while the light Bedouins were careering about the adjacent plain.
Who acts: swarthy troops, light Bedouins · What happens: be, career · To what, where: nation
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 (swarthy troops, light Bedouins), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 troops | amod |
| 4 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 nation | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 nation | det |
| 7 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coast | det |
| 10 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 coast | amod |
| 11 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nation | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 legions | punct |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 legions | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 legions | case |
| 15 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Syria | case |
| 17 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 legions | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Egypt | cc |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Syria | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 careering | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 careering | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bedouins | det |
| 23 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bedouins | compound |
| 24 | Bedouins | bedouin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 careering | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 careering | aux |
| 26 | careering | career | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 plain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 plain | det |
| 29 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 plain | amod |
| 30 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 careering | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | swarthy troops | every nation of the African coast; there | legions from Syria and Egypt nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | career | past · progressive | the light Bedouins | about the adjacent plain | 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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