Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 33
The battle commenced with showers of arrows, stones, and javelins.
What happens: commence · To what, where: battle
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: 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 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 battle | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 showers | case |
| 5 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commenced | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 arrows | case |
| 7 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 showers | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stones | punct |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrows | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 javelins | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 javelins | cc |
| 12 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 battle | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 battle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | participle | the battle and javelins not said here | with showers of arrows and stones | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with shower=Subeventuality |
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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