Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 5
The Arabs were not slow in answering their defiance.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: not be, answer · To what, where: defiance
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 (Arabs), 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 | 2 Arabs | det |
| 2 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slow | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 slow | advmod |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 answering | mark |
| 7 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 slow | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 defiance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answering | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Arabs | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | gerund | the Arabs not said here | Arabs's defiance | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent defiance=Eventuality |
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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