Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 27
In an instant an uproar of drums, trumpets, and shrill war cries burst forth from every side.
Who acts: shrill war cries · What happens: burst · To what, where: instant
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrill war cries), 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 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burst | obl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 uproar | det |
| 5 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instant | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 drums | case |
| 7 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 uproar | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trumpets | punct |
| 9 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drums | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burst | cc |
| 12 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cries | amod |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cries | compound |
| 14 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | nsubj |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 burst | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burst | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | present | shrill war cries | a instant | from every side; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location |
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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