Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 14
He had still his faithful though scanty band of cavaliers, and a number of fugitives of the army; in all amounting to about four hundred men.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: have, amount
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 faithful | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 faithful | nmod:poss |
| 5 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | though | though | ADP | _ | 8 band | case |
| 7 | scanty | scanty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 band | amod |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faithful | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cavaliers | case |
| 10 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 band | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 number | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 number | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fugitives | case |
| 16 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 army | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 army | det |
| 19 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fugitives | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 all | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 had | conj |
| 23 | amounting | amount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 all | acl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 hundred | advmod |
| 26 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 hundred | compound |
| 27 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 men | nummod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 amounting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Pelistes | a number of fugitives of the army conj; faithful property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | amount | gerund | to hundred men | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to man=Value |
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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