Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 11
Taric then ordered that the bodies of the Moslem warriors should be interred; as for those of the Christians, they were gathered in heaps, and vast pyres of wood were formed, on which they were consumed.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: order, inter, gather, form, consume · To what, where: bodies, those, heaps, vast pyres, pyres
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 (Taric), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 interred | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 interred | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 warriors | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warriors | det |
| 9 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bodies | nmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 interred | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 interred | aux:pass |
| 13 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gathered | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Christians | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Christians | det |
| 20 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 those | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 those | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gathered | aux:pass |
| 24 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heaps | case |
| 26 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 gathered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 formed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 formed | cc |
| 29 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pyres | amod |
| 30 | pyres | pyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pyres | nmod |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 formed | aux:pass |
| 34 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 gathered | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 consumed | punct |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 consumed | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 consumed | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 consumed | aux:pass |
| 40 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 formed | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Taric | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | inter not said to happen | should · passive | the bodies of the Moslem warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gather | past · passive | those of the Christians | heaps | bodies = body nsubj:pass | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | form | past · passive | vast pyres of wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | consume | past · passive | pyres = pyre | which obl | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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