Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 26
It is added, that the Arab horsemen, while scouring the mountains in quest of fugitives, found a shepherd arrayed in the royal robes, and brought him before the conqueror, believing him to be the king himself.
Who acts: fugitives · What happens: add, scour, find, array, bring, believe · To what, where: rumour, mountains, quest, shepherd, royal robes, conqueror
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 (fugitives), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | aux:pass |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horsemen | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 horsemen | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horsemen | det |
| 7 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horsemen | amod |
| 8 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 added | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scouring | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 scouring | mark |
| 11 | scouring | scour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 added | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scouring | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 quest | case |
| 15 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scouring | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fugitives | case |
| 17 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quest | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shepherd | det |
| 21 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 shepherd | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 robes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 robes | det |
| 25 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 robes | amod |
| 26 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 arrayed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | obj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 conqueror | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 conqueror | det |
| 33 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 believing | punct |
| 35 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 brought | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 believing | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 king | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 king | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 king | det |
| 40 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 believing | obj |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 40 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | rumour | the Arab horsemen obl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scour | gerund | the mountains | quest of fugitives | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mountain=Source | ||||
| 3 | find | past | a shepherd | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic | |||||
| 4 | array | participle | a shepherd not said here | the royal robes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | shepherd | the conqueror | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before conqueror=Destination | ||||
| 6 | believe | gerund | shepherd | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | the king | king nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | quest | fugitives | nom quest «cognition 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/19/26/