Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 21

Their king is slain; thousands and tens of thousands of their warriors are destroyed; the whole land lies at our mercy; and city after city is surrendering to the victorious arms of Taric.”

Who acts: whole land, city · What happens: slay, destroy, lie, surrender · To what, where: king, thousands, mercy, victorious arms

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 (whole land, city), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 king	nmod:poss
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slain	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux:pass
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 destroyed	punct
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 destroyed	nsubj:pass
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tens	cc
8	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 thousands	case
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tens	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 warriors	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 warriors	nmod:poss
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 destroyed	aux:pass
15	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 slain	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lies	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 land	amod
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lies	nsubj
20	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 mercy	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mercy	nmod:poss
23	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lies	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 surrendering	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 surrendering	cc
26	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 surrendering	nsubj
27	after	after	ADP	_	28 city	case
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 city	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 surrendering	aux
30	surrendering	surrender	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 slain	advcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 arms	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 arms	det
33	victorious	victorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 arms	amod
34	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 surrendering	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Taric	case
36	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 arms	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 surrendering	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 surrendering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	slay	present · passive		TARIC's king			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	destroy	present · passive		thousands and tens of thousands of TARIC's warriors			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	lie	present	the whole land			our mercy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at mercy=Location
4	surrender	present · progressive	city after city		the victorious arms of Taric		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to arm=Recipient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 21