Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 23
As the royal car rolled along in front of the squadrons, the soldiers shouted with admiration.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: roll, shout · To what, where: royal car, front
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 (soldiers), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 car | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 car | amod |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouted | obl |
| 5 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 car | acl |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 squadrons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 squadrons | det |
| 11 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 car | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldiers | det |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shouted | nsubj |
| 15 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 admiration | case |
| 17 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shouted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle | the royal car not said here | front of the squadrons | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along front=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | the soldiers | as the royal car; with admiration | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/18/23/