Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 43
Some were mounted on steeds which they had brought from Africa; the rest he supplied with horses taken from the Christians.
Who acts: rest · What happens: mount, bring, supply, take · To what, where: Some, steeds, Africa
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 (rest), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux:pass |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 steeds | case |
| 5 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mounted | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 steeds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 supplied | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 supplied | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 supplied | nsubj |
| 16 | supplied | supply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 horses | case |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 supplied | obl |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 supplied | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Christians | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Christians | det |
| 22 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | obl:agent |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · passive | Some | steeds | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on steed=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | steeds | Africa | troops nsubj:pass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from africa=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | supply | past | the rest | with horses | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | participle | the rest not said here | the Christians obl:agent | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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