Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 3
The gaunt Arab was as a wolf roaming through the fold he had laid waste.
Who acts: gaunt Arab, wolf, Christian · What happens: be, roam, lay · To what, where: fold, waste
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 (gaunt Arab, wolf, Christian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Arab | det |
| 2 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Arab | amod |
| 3 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wolf | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wolf | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | roaming | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wolf | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 fold | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fold | det |
| 11 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roaming | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | aux |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fold | acl:relcl |
| 15 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wolf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gaunt Arab | as a wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roam | gerund | a wolf not said here | the fold | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fold=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lay | past · perfect | Christian | waste | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |
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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