Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 5
There lay the flower of her youthful chivalry, mangled and destroyed, and the strength of her yeomanry prostrated in the dust.
What happens: lie, mangle, destroy, prostrate · To what, where: flower, youthful chivalry, yeomanry, dust
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 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chivalry | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chivalry | nmod:poss |
| 7 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chivalry | amod |
| 8 | chivalry | chivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flower | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mangled | punct |
| 10 | mangled | mangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chivalry | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 destroyed | cc |
| 12 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mangled | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strength | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strength | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strength | det |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 yeomanry | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 yeomanry | nmod:poss |
| 19 | yeomanry | yeomanry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strength | nmod |
| 20 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 yeomanry | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dust | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dust | det |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prostrated | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the flower of eye's youthful chivalry | there | the strength of eye's yeomanry parataxis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | mangle | participle | eye's youthful chivalry not said here | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | destroy | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | prostrate | participle | eye's yeomanry not said here | the dust | tree rules |
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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