Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 34
The Christian foot-soldiers fought to disadvantage, the greater part being destitute of helm or buckler.
Who acts: Christian foot soldiers · What happens: fight, disadvantage, be · To what, where: part destitute
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 (Christian foot 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldiers | det |
| 2 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldiers | amod |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soldiers | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 foot | punct |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 disadvantage | mark |
| 8 | disadvantage | disadvantage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fought | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destitute | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 part | det |
| 11 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 part | amod |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destitute | compound |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 destitute | cop |
| 14 | destitute | destitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disadvantage | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 helm | case |
| 16 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destitute | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 buckler | cc |
| 18 | buckler | buckler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helm | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the Christian foot soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | disadvantage | to-infinitive | the Christian foot soldiers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | part destitute | of helm or buckler | tree rules |
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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