Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 16
When the troops were marshalled for the field, Don Roderick prepared to sally forth in the state and pomp with which the Gothic kings were wont to go to battle.
Who acts: Don, Gothic kings · What happens: marshall, prepare, be, go, battle · To what, where: troops, state
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, Gothic kings), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 marshalled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troops | det |
| 3 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 marshalled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marshalled | aux:pass |
| 5 | marshalled | marshall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 prepared | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marshalled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 marshalled | punct |
| 10 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 prepared | nsubj |
| 11 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Don | flat |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 forth | mark |
| 14 | sally | sally | ADV | _ | 15 forth | advmod |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 prepared | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 state | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 state | det |
| 18 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepared | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pomp | cc |
| 20 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 state | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 wont | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kings | det |
| 24 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kings | amod |
| 25 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 wont | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wont | cop |
| 27 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pomp | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wont | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 battle | mark |
| 31 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marshall | past · passive | the troops | for the field | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past | Don | the state and pomp | forth property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Gothic kings | with pomp; wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | the Gothic kings not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | battle | to-infinitive | the Gothic kings not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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