Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 48
“What can our raw troops do,” said he, “against those squadrons of horse that move like castles?
Who acts: raw troops, Theodomir, squadrons · What happens: do, say, move · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raw troops, Theodomir, squadrons), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 troops | nmod:poss |
| 5 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troops | amod |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 squadrons | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 squadrons | punct |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 squadrons | case |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 squadrons | det |
| 16 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squadrons | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 move | nsubj |
| 20 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 squadrons | acl:relcl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 castles | case |
| 22 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 move | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | our raw troops | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Theodomir | against that squadrons of horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move in a quote | present | that squadrons of horse | like castles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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