Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 47
From that moment the fortune of the day was changed, and the field of battle became a scene of wild confusion and bloody massacre.
Who acts: field · What happens: change, become · To what, where: fortune, scene
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 (field), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fortune | det |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 changed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fortune | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux:pass |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 field | nmod |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scene | det |
| 19 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 confusion | case |
| 21 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 confusion | amod |
| 22 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scene | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 massacre | cc |
| 24 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 massacre | amod |
| 25 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 confusion | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | the fortune of the day | moment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the field of battle | a scene of wild confusion and bloody massacre | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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