Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 1
Taric ben Zeyad had been surprised by the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles, and at the number and apparent devotion of the troops which accompanied the king to the field.
Who acts: valour, apparent devotion · What happens: surprise, accompany, devote · To what, where: Taric ben, number, king, field, troops
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valour, apparent devotion), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ben | compound |
| 2 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ben | appos |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 surprised | aux:pass |
| 6 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 valour | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 valour | det |
| 9 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cavaliers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cavaliers | det |
| 12 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cavaliers | amod |
| 13 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 valour | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 battles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 battles | det |
| 16 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 battles | amod |
| 17 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cavaliers | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 number | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 number | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 surprised | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 devotion | cc |
| 24 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 devotion | amod |
| 25 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 number | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 troops | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 troops | det |
| 28 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 devotion | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 accompanied | nsubj |
| 30 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 devotion | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 accompanied | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 field | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 field | det |
| 35 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 accompanied | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past · perfect · passive | the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles | Taric ben | the number and apparent devotion of the troops | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | accompany | past | apparent devotion of the troops | the king | the field | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to field=Destination | |||
| 3 | devote | the troops | nom devotion «feeling 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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