Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 5
By degrees the provisions of the convent were consumed, and the cavaliers had to slay their horses, one by one, for food.
Who acts: degrees, cavaliers, convent · What happens: consume, have, slay, provide · To what, where: provisions, horses
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: who acts (degrees, cavaliers, convent), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 degrees | case |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 consumed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 provisions | det |
| 4 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 convent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 convent | det |
| 7 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 provisions | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 consumed | aux:pass |
| 9 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cavaliers | det |
| 13 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 consumed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 slay | mark |
| 16 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slay | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 horses | appos |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 food | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 food | case |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | past · passive | degrees | the provisions of the convent | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the cavaliers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | the cavaliers not said here | cavaliers's horses | for food | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 4 | provide | the convent | nom provision «communication 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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