Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 20
“Taric,” said they, “has overthrown the whole force of the unbelievers in one mighty battle.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: say, overthrow · To what, where: whole force, one mighty battle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Taric | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Taric | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overthrown | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 overthrown | punct |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 overthrown | aux |
| 10 | overthrown | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 force | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 force | amod |
| 13 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overthrown | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 unbelievers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 unbelievers | det |
| 16 | unbelievers | unbeliever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 force | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 battle | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 battle | nummod |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 battle | amod |
| 20 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overthrown | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Taric | TARIC nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overthrow in a quote | present · perfect | Taric not said here | the whole force of the unbelievers | one mighty battle | 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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