Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 46
The Bishop Oppas with the two princes, who had hitherto kept their bands out of the fight, suddenly went over to the enemy, and turned their weapons upon their astonished countrymen.
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: keep, go over, turn · To what, where: two princes, fight, weapons
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 (Bishop), 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 Bishop | det |
| 2 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bishop | flat |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 princes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princes | nummod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Bishop | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux |
| 11 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 12 kept | advmod |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 princes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kept | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fight | det |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bishop | punct |
| 20 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 enemy | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enemy | det |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turned | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 turned | cc |
| 28 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 turned | obj |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 countrymen | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 33 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 countrymen | amod |
| 34 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 turned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the two princes | the fight | princes's bands obj; hitherto property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme band=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go over | past | the Bishop with the two princes | to the enemy; over, suddenly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the Bishop with the two princes not said here | bands's weapons | upon bands's astonished countrymen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
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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