Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 32

He appeared in Syria with a small train of war-worn followers, and had no other trophies to show than his battered armour, and a body seamed with scars.

Who acts: Cadiz, body · What happens: appear, have, show, batter, seam · To what, where: Syria, other trophies

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadiz, body), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Syria	case
4	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 train	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 train	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 train	amod
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appeared	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 followers	case
10	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worn	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 war	punct
12	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 followers	amod
13	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 train	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 appeared	parataxis
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 trophies	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trophies	amod
19	trophies	trophy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	advcl
22	than	than	ADP	_	25 armour	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 armour	nmod:poss
24	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 armour	amod
25	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 show	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seamed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 seamed	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 body	det
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seamed	nsubj
30	seamed	seam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 appeared	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 scars	case
32	scars	scar	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seamed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Cadiz		Syria	with a small train of worn followers	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in syria=Location
2	have	past		no other trophies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trophy=Patient
3	show	to-infinitive				than Cadiz's battered armour	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	batter	participle					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	seam	participle	a body			with scars	tree rules

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 XIII., sentence 32

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 32