Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 20
[25] This sumptuous chariot was drawn by milk-white horses, with caparisons of crimson velvet, embroidered with pearls.
Who acts: white horses · What happens: draw, embroider · To what, where: sumptuous chariot, white horses, 25
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 (white horses), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 chariot | det |
| 5 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chariot | amod |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drawn | aux:pass |
| 8 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 25 | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 milk | punct |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 horses | amod |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drawn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 caparisons | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 caparisons | case |
| 16 | caparisons | caparison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 velvet | case |
| 18 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 velvet | amod |
| 19 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caparisons | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 embroidered | punct |
| 21 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 horses | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 pearls | case |
| 23 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 embroidered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 25 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | white horses and caparisons of crimson velvet | this sumptuous chariot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | embroider | participle | white horses and caparisons of crimson velvet not said here | with pearls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |
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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