Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 38
The twang of the bow-string was followed by the crash of armour, and a deep groan, as the horseman tumbled to the earth.
Who acts: crash, horseman, armour · What happens: follow, tumble, twang, crash · To what, where: twang, earth, bow string
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 (crash, horseman, armour), 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 twang | det |
| 2 | twang | twang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 string | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 string | det |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 string | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bow | punct |
| 7 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twang | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | aux:pass |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 crash | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crash | det |
| 12 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 armour | case |
| 14 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crash | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 groan | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 groan | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 groan | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 groan | amod |
| 19 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crash | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tumbled | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 tumbled | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 horseman | det |
| 23 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tumbled | nsubj |
| 24 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 earth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 earth | det |
| 27 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tumbled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · passive | the crash of armour and a deep groan | the twang of the bow string | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tumble | past | the horseman | the earth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | twang | the bow string | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | crash | armour | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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