Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 3
They were led on by Theodomir, the same Gothic noble who had signalised himself by first opposing the invasion of the Moslems.
Who acts: Theodomir, same Gothic noble · What happens: lead on, signalis, oppose, invade · To what, where: armies, Theodomir, invasion, Moslems
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 (Theodomir, same Gothic noble), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | aux:pass |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 led | compound:prt |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Theodomir | case |
| 6 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl:agent |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 noble | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 noble | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noble | amod |
| 10 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noble | amod |
| 11 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Theodomir | appos |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 signalised | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 signalised | aux |
| 14 | signalised | signalis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 noble | acl:relcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 signalised | obj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 opposing | mark |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 opposing | advmod |
| 18 | opposing | oppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 signalised | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 invasion | det |
| 20 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opposing | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Moslems | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moslems | det |
| 23 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 invasion | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead on | past · passive | Theodomir | armies = army | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | signalis | past · perfect | the same Gothic noble | Theodomir | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oppose | gerund | the same Gothic noble not said here | the invasion of the Moslems | first property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invasion=Patient | |||
| 4 | invade | the Moslems | nom invasion «act transitive»: 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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