Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 6
The Gothic noble lay confounded with his vassals; the peasant with the prince; all ranks and dignities were mingled in one bloody massacre.
What happens: confound, mingle · To what, where: Gothic noble, ranks, one bloody massacre
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 noble | det |
| 2 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noble | amod |
| 3 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confounded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 confounded | aux:pass |
| 5 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 vassals | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 vassals | nmod:poss |
| 8 | vassals | vassal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confounded | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 peasant | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confounded | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peasant | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 mingled | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 ranks | det |
| 17 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mingled | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dignities | cc |
| 19 | dignities | dignity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ranks | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mingled | aux:pass |
| 21 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 confounded | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 massacre | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 massacre | nummod |
| 24 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 massacre | amod |
| 25 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mingled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confound | past · passive | the Gothic noble | with Christian's vassals; the peasant with the prince obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mingle | past · passive | all ranks and dignities | one bloody massacre | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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