Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 15

The conflict that day was more general and bloody than the day preceding; the slaughter of the Christian warriors was immense, from their lack of defensive armour; and as nothing could prevent the flower of the Gothic chivalry from spurring to the combat, the field was strewed with the bodies of the youthful nobles.

Who acts: conflict, slaughter, warriors · What happens: be, precede, prevent, spur, strew, slaughter · To what, where: lack, flower, field, Christian warriors, defensive armour

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 (conflict, slaughter, warriors), 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 conflict	det
2	conflict	conflict	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 general	nsubj
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 conflict	nmod:unmarked
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 general	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 general	amod
7	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bloody	cc
9	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 general	conj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 preceding	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 preceding	obl:unmarked
13	preceding	precede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bloody	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 immense	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 slaughter	det
16	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 immense	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 warriors	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 warriors	det
19	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 warriors	amod
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slaughter	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 immense	cop
22	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 general	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lack	punct
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 lack	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lack	nmod:poss
26	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 immense	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 armour	case
28	defensive	defensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 armour	amod
29	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lack	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 prevent	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 prevent	cc
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 nothing	case
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 prevent	obl
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 prevent	aux
35	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 general	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 flower	det
37	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 prevent	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 chivalry	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chivalry	det
40	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chivalry	amod
41	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flower	nmod
42	from	from	SCONJ	_	43 spurring	mark
43	spurring	spur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 prevent	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 combat	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 combat	det
46	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spurring	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 strewed	punct
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 field	det
49	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 strewed	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 strewed	aux:pass
51	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 prevent	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 bodies	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bodies	det
54	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 strewed	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 nobles	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 nobles	det
57	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 nobles	amod
58	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 bodies	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 general	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the conflict that day				general property	tree rules
2	be		the conflict that day not said here					tree rules
3	precede	gerund	the conflict that day not said here			day		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the slaughter of the Christian warriors		warriors's lack of defensive armour		immense property	tree rules
5	prevent	could	the conflict that day not said here	the flower of the Gothic chivalry			as nothing	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer flower=Theme
6	spur	gerund	the conflict that day not said here				to the combat	vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	strew	past · passive		the field			with the bodies of the youthful nobles	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with body=Theme
8	slaughter			the Christian warriors				nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=patient
9	lack		warriors = warrior	defensive armour				nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 15