Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 26
“One day of glorious fighting,” said he, “and this infidel horde will be driven into the sea, or will perish beneath your swords.
Who acts: One day, Don · What happens: say, drive, perish · To what, where: infidel horde, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One day, Don), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fighting | case |
| 5 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fighting | amod |
| 6 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 perish | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perish | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 perish | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 driven | cc |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 horde | det |
| 15 | infidel | infidel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horde | compound |
| 16 | horde | horde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 driven | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 driven | aux:pass |
| 19 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 perish | advcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perish | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 perish | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 perish | aux |
| 26 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 27 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 29 swords | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 swords | nmod:poss |
| 29 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 perish | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One day of glorious fighting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | future · passive | this infidel horde | the sea | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | perish in a quote | future | Don | beneath your swords | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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