Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 14
For three days the Arabian horsemen pursued the flying Christians, hunting them over the face of the country; so that but a scanty number of that mighty host escaped to tell the tale of their disaster.
Who acts: Arabian horsemen, scanty number, disaster · What happens: pursue, fly, hunt, escape, tell · To what, where: flying Christians, horseman, face, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Arabian horsemen, scanty number, disaster), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pursued | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horsemen | det |
| 5 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horsemen | amod |
| 6 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pursued | nsubj |
| 7 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Christians | det |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Christians | amod |
| 10 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 pursued | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunting | punct |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pursued | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hunting | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunting | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 face | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 escaped | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 escaped | mark |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 number | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 25 | scanty | scanty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 number | compound |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 escaped | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 host | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 host | det |
| 29 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 host | amod |
| 30 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 number | nmod |
| 31 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pursued | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 tell | mark |
| 33 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 escaped | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tale | det |
| 35 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tell | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 disaster | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 disaster | nmod:poss |
| 38 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tale | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the Arabian horsemen | the flying Christians | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christian=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | the Arabian horsemen not said here | horseman | the face of the country | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme over face=Location | |||
| 4 | escape | past | a scanty number of that mighty host | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | a scanty number of that mighty host not said here | the tale of horseman's disaster | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | tell | horseman's disaster | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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