Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 52
In this situation the warriors were found by certain Moorish cavaliers, who marvelled much at the traces of that stern and bloody combat.
Who acts: certain Moorish cavaliers · What happens: find, marvell · To what, where: warriors, situation, traces
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 (certain Moorish cavaliers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 situation | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 situation | det |
| 3 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warriors | det |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 cavaliers | case |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cavaliers | amod |
| 10 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cavaliers | amod |
| 11 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marvelled | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 marvelled | nsubj |
| 14 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cavaliers | acl:relcl |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 marvelled | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 traces | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 traces | det |
| 18 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 marvelled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 combat | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 combat | det |
| 21 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 combat | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bloody | cc |
| 23 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stern | conj |
| 24 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 traces | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | certain Moorish cavaliers | the warriors | this situation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | marvell | past | certain Moorish cavaliers | the traces of that stern combat | tree rules |
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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