Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 33
The greater part of the chosen troops who had sallied were cut to pieces in that scene of massacre, for they had been confounded by the tempest of battle which suddenly broke forth around them.
Who acts: chosen troops, tempest · What happens: choose, sally, cut, confound, break · To what, where: greater part, scene, pieces, battle
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 (chosen troops, tempest), 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 | 12 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 troops | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 troops | det |
| 6 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 troops | amod |
| 7 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 part | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sallied | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sallied | aux |
| 10 | sallied | sally | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 troops | acl:relcl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | aux:pass |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 pieces | case |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cut | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 scene | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 scene | det |
| 17 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 massacre | case |
| 19 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scene | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 confounded | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 confounded | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 confounded | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 confounded | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 confounded | aux:pass |
| 25 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cut | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 tempest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tempest | det |
| 28 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 confounded | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 battle | case |
| 30 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tempest | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 broke | obj |
| 32 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 33 broke | advmod |
| 33 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 battle | acl:relcl |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 33 broke | advmod |
| 35 | around | around | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 broke | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | sally | past · perfect | the chosen troops | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut | past · passive | the greater part of the chosen troops | that scene of massacre | to pieces result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 4 | confound | past · perfect · passive | the tempest of battle | pieces = piece | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | break | past | battle | around pieces = piece; forth, suddenly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Patient |
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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