Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 36
Theodomir now brought up his seasoned troops into the action, seconded by the veteran Pelistes, and in a little while the battle became furious and promiscuous.
Who acts: Theodomir, battle · What happens: bring up, second, become · To what, where: seasoned troops, action, little
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 (Theodomir, battle), 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 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 troops | nmod:poss |
| 6 | seasoned | seasoned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 troops | amod |
| 7 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 action | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 action | det |
| 10 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seconded | punct |
| 12 | seconded | second | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 action | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 veteran | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 veteran | det |
| 15 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seconded | obl |
| 16 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 veteran | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 became | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 little | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 little | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 became | obl |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 became | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 battle | det |
| 24 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 became | nsubj |
| 25 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 26 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 became | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 promiscuous | cc |
| 28 | promiscuous | promiscuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 furious | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | Theodomir | Theodomir's seasoned troops | the action | now | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent troops=Patient | ||
| 2 | second | participle | the action not said here | by the veteran | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the battle | in a little result; furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in little=Result |
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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