Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 38
Wherever the Moslems fell, the Christians rushed forward, seized upon their horses, and stripped them of their armour and their weapons.
Who acts: Moslems, Christians · What happens: fall, rush, seize, strip · To what, where: Christians
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 (Moslems, Christians), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moslems | det |
| 3 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Christians | det |
| 7 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 rushed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rushed | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seized | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stripped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stripped | cc |
| 17 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rushed | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stripped | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 armour | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 armour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stripped | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 weapons | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 armour | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Moslems | wherever property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | the Christians | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | participle | the Christians not said here | upon Christians's horses | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | strip | past | the Christians not said here | Christians = christian | of Christians's armour and Christians's weapons | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme of armour=Initial_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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