Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 44
Their shields were hacked to pieces, the ground was strewed with fragments of their armour, and stained with their blood.
What happens: hack, strew, stain · To what, where: shields, ground
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shields | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hacked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hacked | aux:pass |
| 4 | hacked | hack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 pieces | case |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hacked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 strewed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strewed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strewed | aux:pass |
| 11 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hacked | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fragments | case |
| 13 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 strewed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 armour | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 armour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fragments | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stained | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stained | cc |
| 19 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hacked | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 blood | nmod:poss |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stained | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hack | past · passive | warriors's shields | to pieces result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 2 | strew | past · passive | the ground | with fragments of warriors's armour | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fragment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stain | participle | with warriors's blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme |
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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