Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 4
The pale crescent of the moon hung over the Moorish camp, and dimly lighted up the windings of the Guadalete.
Who acts: pale crescent · What happens: hang, light up · To what, where: Moorish camp, windings
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 (pale crescent), 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 | 3 crescent | det |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crescent | amod |
| 3 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crescent | nmod |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 camp | det |
| 10 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 camp | amod |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lighted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lighted | cc |
| 14 | dimly | dimly | ADV | _ | 15 lighted | advmod |
| 15 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hung | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 lighted | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 windings | det |
| 18 | windings | winding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lighted | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Guadalete | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Guadalete | det |
| 21 | Guadalete | Guadalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 windings | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the pale crescent of the moon | the Moorish camp | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over camp=Location | ||||
| 2 | light up | participle | the pale crescent of the moon not said here | the windings of the Guadalete | dimly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winding=Product |
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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