Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 73
There were but few men in the city capable of bearing arms, most of the youth having fallen in the field.
Who acts: few men, youth · What happens: be, have, fall · To what, where: field
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 (few men, youth), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 men | nmod |
| 9 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 arms | case |
| 11 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arms | compound |
| 12 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 capable | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 most | punct |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 men | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 youth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 most | nmod |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 youth | acl |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 field | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fallen | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | few men in the city | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the youth not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | participle | the youth not said here | the field | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=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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