Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 57
The greater part of the cavaliers died bravely, sword in hand; the rest were disabled with wounds and made prisoners.
Who acts: greater part · What happens: die, disable, make · To what, where: sword, rest, prisoners
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 (greater part), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 2 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 part | amod |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cavaliers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cavaliers | det |
| 6 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sword | punct |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 disabled | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 disabled | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disabled | aux:pass |
| 17 | disabled | disable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 died | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wounds | case |
| 19 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disabled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 disabled | conj |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the greater part of the cavaliers | sword in hand | bravely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | disable | past · passive | the rest | with wounds | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with wound=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | make | past | prisoners | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product |
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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