Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 31
Our troops are rude and unskilful, but slightly armed, and much cast down in spirit.
Who acts: troops · What happens: be, cast down · To what, where: spirit
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 (troops), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 troops | nmod:poss |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 rude | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rude | cop |
| 4 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 unskilful | cc |
| 6 | unskilful | unskilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rude | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 armed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 armed | cc |
| 9 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 10 armed | advmod |
| 10 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rude | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cast | cc |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 cast | advmod |
| 14 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rude | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 cast | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spirit | case |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our troops | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Our troops not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | Our troops not said here | slightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cast down | participle | Our troops not said here | spirit | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in spirit=Destination |
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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