Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 42
“The Spaniards,” replied Taric, “are lions in their castles, eagles in their saddles, but mere women when on foot.
Who acts: Spaniards · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: Taric, lions, castles · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Spaniards), 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 | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Spaniards | det |
| 3 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Spaniards | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Spaniards | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lions | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 lions | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lions | cop |
| 11 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 castles | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 castles | nmod:poss |
| 14 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eagles | punct |
| 16 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 castles | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 saddles | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 saddles | nmod:poss |
| 19 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eagles | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 women | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 women | cc |
| 22 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 women | amod |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 replied | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 women | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 when | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Spaniards | Taric | mere women obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | lions | Spaniards's castles and eagles in Spaniards's saddles | 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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