Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 54
A complete panic fell upon the Christians; they threw away their arms and fled in all directions.
Who acts: complete panic, bands · What happens: fall, throw away, flee · To what, where: Christians, arms, directions
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 (complete panic, bands), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 panic | det |
| 2 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 panic | amod |
| 3 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 Christians | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Christians | det |
| 7 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 threw | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 threw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fled | cc |
| 15 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 threw | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 directions | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 directions | det |
| 18 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a complete panic | the Christians | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon christian=Location | ||||
| 2 | throw away | past | bands = band | bands's arms | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 3 | flee | participle | bands = band not said here | all directions | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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