Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 4
The Christian squadrons paraded with flying pennons in the valley which lay between the armies.
Who acts: valley · What happens: parade, lie · To what, where: Christian squadrons, valley, armies
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 (valley), 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 | 3 squadrons | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 squadrons | amod |
| 3 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | paraded | parade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 squadrons | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pennons | case |
| 6 | flying | flying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pennons | compound |
| 7 | pennons | pennon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paraded | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 valley | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 valley | det |
| 10 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paraded | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 valley | acl:relcl |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 armies | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 armies | det |
| 15 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 squadrons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parade | participle | the Christian squadrons not said here | the valley | with flying pennons | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | lie | past | the valley | the armies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between army=Location |
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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