Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 28
The army shouted with one accord, “Forward to the foe, and death be his portion who shuns the encounter!”
Who acts: army, death, portion · What happens: shout, be, shun · To what, where: portion, encounter · 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 (army, death, portion), 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 army | det |
| 2 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 accord | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 accord | nummod |
| 6 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 foe | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 foe | punct |
| 9 | Forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 foe | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 foe | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foe | det |
| 12 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accord | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 portion | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 portion | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 portion | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 portion | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 portion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | ccomp |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 shuns | nsubj |
| 20 | shuns | shun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 portion | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 encounter | det |
| 22 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shuns | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 portion | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 portion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the army | with one accord and the foe | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | infinitive | death | army's portion | army nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | shun in a quote | present | army's portion | the encounter | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent encounter=Location |
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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