Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 3
What then was their dismay, when scattered fugitives, wild with horror and affright, brought them tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host, and the disappearance of the king!
Who acts: king · What happens: be, bring, overthrow, disappear · To what, where: dismay, inhabitants, mighty host
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 (king), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 brought | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dismay | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dismay | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dismay | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fugitives | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 scattered | advmod |
| 8 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 9 fugitives | amod |
| 9 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dismay | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wild | punct |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fugitives | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horror | case |
| 13 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wild | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 affright | cc |
| 15 | affright | affright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horror | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 overthrow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 overthrow | det |
| 22 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 overthrow | amod |
| 23 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tidings | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 host | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 host | det |
| 26 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 host | amod |
| 27 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overthrow | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 disappearance | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 disappearance | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 disappearance | det |
| 31 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 king | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disappearance | nmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | inhabitants's dismay | then | inhabitants = inhabitant nmod:poss; scattered fugitives appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | the disappearance of the king obl; What nsubj:outer; tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination tiding=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | that mighty host | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | disappear | the king | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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