Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 2
About noontide, King Roderick sent forth a chosen force of five hundred horse and two hundred foot, the best armed of his host, to skirmish with the enemy, that, by gaining some partial advantage, they might raise the spirits of the army.
Who acts: King, armies · What happens: send, choose, arm, skirmish, gain, raise · To what, where: chosen force, that, partial advantage, spirits
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 (King, armies), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 noontide | case |
| 2 | noontide | noontide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 noontide | punct |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 force | det |
| 9 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 force | amod |
| 10 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 horse | nummod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 force | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 foot | cc |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 foot | nummod |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 best | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 sent | obj |
| 22 | armed | arm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 best | acl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 host | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 host | nmod:poss |
| 25 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 armed | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 skirmish | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 skirmish | mark |
| 28 | skirmish | skirmish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sent | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 enemy | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 enemy | det |
| 31 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 skirmish | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 that | punct |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 skirmish | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 gaining | punct |
| 35 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 36 gaining | mark |
| 36 | gaining | gain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 skirmish | advcl |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 advantage | det |
| 38 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 advantage | amod |
| 39 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gaining | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 raise | punct |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 raise | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 raise | aux |
| 43 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 skirmish | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 spirits | det |
| 45 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 raise | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 army | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 army | det |
| 48 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 spirits | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | King | a chosen force of hundred horse and hundred foot | about noontide; forth property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent force=Destination good=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | arm | participle | King's host obl:agent | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | skirmish | to-infinitive | King not said here | that | with the enemy | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | gain | gerund | King not said here | some partial advantage | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | raise | might | armies = army | the spirits of the army | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
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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