Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 6
A large body of horsemen sallied forth to the encounter, together with three hundred of the followers of Count Julian.
Who acts: large body · What happens: sally
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 (large body), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sallied | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 horsemen | case |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 body | nmod |
| 6 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 sallied | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 encounter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 encounter | det |
| 10 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sallied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hundred | punct |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 hundred | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hundred | case |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sallied | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 followers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 followers | det |
| 18 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hundred | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Julian | case |
| 20 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Julian | compound |
| 21 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 followers | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sallied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | past | a large body of horsemen | to the encounter; with three hundred of the followers of Count Julian; forth property | tree rules |
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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