Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 1
On the morning after the battle, the Arab leader, Taric ben Zeyad, rode over the bloody field of the Guadalete, strewed with the ruins of those splendid armies, which had so lately passed like glorious pageants along the river banks.
Who acts: splendid armies · What happens: ride, strew, have, pass, ruin · To what, where: bloody field, Guadalete, river banks, splendid armies
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid armies), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leader | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 leader | det |
| 9 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leader | amod |
| 10 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battle | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ben | punct |
| 12 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ben | compound |
| 13 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 battle | conj |
| 14 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ben | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 field | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 field | det |
| 19 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 field | amod |
| 20 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Guadalete | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Guadalete | det |
| 23 | Guadalete | guadalete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 field | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strewed | punct |
| 25 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Guadalete | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 ruins | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ruins | det |
| 28 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 strewed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 armies | case |
| 30 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 armies | det |
| 31 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 armies | amod |
| 32 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ruins | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 armies | acl:relcl |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 passed | advmod |
| 37 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 38 passed | advmod |
| 38 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 had | xcomp |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 pageants | case |
| 40 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pageants | amod |
| 41 | pageants | pageant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 passed | obl |
| 42 | along | along | ADP | _ | 45 banks | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 banks | det |
| 44 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 banks | compound |
| 45 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 passed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the bloody field of the Guadalete | morning | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over field=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | strew | participle | the Guadalete not said here | with the ruins of that splendid armies | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ruin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | that splendid armies | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | participle | that splendid armies not said here | the river banks | like glorious pageants; lately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along bank=Location | |||
| 5 | ruin | that splendid armies | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=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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