Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 11
On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armour of the killed and wounded.
Who acts: larger force · What happens: follow, order out, skirmish, unarm, command, stand · To what, where: larger force, soldiery, horses, armour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larger force), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 force | det |
| 7 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 force | amod |
| 8 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ordered | aux:pass |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ordered | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 skirmish | mark |
| 13 | skirmish | skirmish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 commanded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 commanded | cc |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 19 soldiery | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 such | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldiery | det |
| 19 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 commanded | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 unarmed | mark |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 unarmed | aux:pass |
| 22 | unarmed | unarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldiery | acl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 commanded | aux:pass |
| 24 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ordered | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stand | mark |
| 26 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 commanded | xcomp |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stand | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 seize | mark |
| 29 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stand | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 horses | det |
| 31 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 seize | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 strip | cc |
| 33 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 horses | conj |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 armour | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 armour | det |
| 36 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seize | obl |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 killed | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 killed | det |
| 39 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 armour | acl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 wounded | cc |
| 41 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 killed | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | order out | past · passive | a larger force | morning | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | skirmish not said to happen | to-infinitive | a larger force not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | unarm | past · passive | the soldiery not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | command | past · passive | such the soldiery | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | seize | to-infinitive | the horses and strip | the armour | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme off armour=Source | ||||
| 8 | kill | participle | the armour not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | wound | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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