Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 35
His body was found the next morning, lying among the slain, and transpierced with half a score of lances.
What happens: find, lie, transpierc, score · To what, where: body, slain, lances
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 found | advcl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 slain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 slain | det |
| 12 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 transpierced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 transpierced | cc |
| 15 | transpierced | transpierc | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 score | case |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 score | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 score | det |
| 19 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 transpierced | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lances | case |
| 21 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 score | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Tendero's body | morning | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the slain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among slain=Location | |||||
| 3 | transpierc | participle | with half score of lances | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | score | lances | nom score «cognition transitive»: of=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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