Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 22
Their veteran commander was seated on his war-horse, but the blood trickled from the greaves of his armour.
Who acts: blood · What happens: seat, trickle · To what, where: veteran commander, greaves
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 (blood), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 commander | nmod:poss |
| 2 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commander | compound |
| 3 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 war | punct |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trickled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 trickled | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trickled | nsubj |
| 15 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seated | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 greaves | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 greaves | det |
| 18 | greaves | greave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trickled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 armour | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 armour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 greaves | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | troops's veteran commander | on Pelistes's war horse | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | trickle | participle | the blood | the greaves of Pelistes's armour | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from greave=Source |
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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