Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 35
The great army of the Goths is vanquished, and their nobles are slaughtered or dispersed.
What happens: vanquish, slaughter, disperse · To what, where: great army, nobles
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: 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 army | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 army | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vanquished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Goths | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Goths | det |
| 6 | Goths | Goth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 army | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 8 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slaughtered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slaughtered | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slaughtered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 slaughtered | aux:pass |
| 14 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 vanquished | parataxis |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 dispersed | cc |
| 16 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 slaughtered | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vanquished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanquish | present · passive | the great army of the Goths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slaughter | present · passive | Goths's nobles | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | disperse | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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