Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 5

Each horseman, beside his arms, carried a small sack of provisions, a copper vessel in which to cook them, and a skin which served him for surcoat and for bed.

Who acts: horseman, skin · What happens: carry, cook, serve · To what, where: small sack, horseman, CONQUEST

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman, skin), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 horseman	det
2	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 arms	punct
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arms	nmod:poss
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 horseman	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 horseman	punct
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sack	amod
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 provisions	case
13	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sack	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vessel	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 vessel	det
16	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vessel	compound
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cook	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cook	mark
21	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 vessel	acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cook	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 served	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 served	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 skin	det
26	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 served	nsubj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 served	nsubj
28	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carried	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 served	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 surcoat	case
31	surcoat	surcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 served	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bed	cc
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 bed	case
34	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 surcoat	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	past	each horseman and CONQUEST's arms	a small sack of provisions	a copper vessel obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
2	cook	to-infinitive	each horseman and CONQUEST's arms not said here	horseman	in a copper vessel	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in which=Instrument
3	serve	past	a skin	CONQUEST	for surcoat and bed; which nsubj	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme for surcoat=Recipient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 5

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 5