Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 2
There Moor and Christian, horseman and horse, lay gashed with hideous wounds; and the river, still red with blood, was filled with the bodies of the slain.
What happens: lay, gash, fill · To what, where: Moor, river
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Moor | expl |
| 2 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Christian | cc |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Moor | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horseman | punct |
| 6 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Moor | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 horse | cc |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horseman | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | gashed | gash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lay | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wounds | case |
| 13 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wounds | amod |
| 14 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gashed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 river | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 river | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 river | det |
| 18 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 red | advmod |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 river | amod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 red | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 filled | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 filled | aux:pass |
| 26 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 river | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 bodies | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bodies | det |
| 29 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 filled | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 slain | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 slain | det |
| 32 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bodies | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Moor There and Christian | the river obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gash | participle | with hideous wounds | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wound=Instrument | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | the river not said here | with the bodies of the slain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with body=Instrument |
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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