Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 47
“They are infinite in number, rapid in the onset, fierce in battle, but confused and headlong in flight.”
Who acts: people · What happens: be · To what, where: number, onset
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 (people), 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 | _ | 4 infinite | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 infinite | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 infinite | cop |
| 4 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 number | case |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 infinite | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rapid | punct |
| 8 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 infinite | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 onset | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 onset | det |
| 11 | onset | onset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rapid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fierce | punct |
| 13 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 onset | amod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 battle | case |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fierce | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 confused | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 confused | cc |
| 18 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 infinite | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 headlong | cc |
| 20 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 confused | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 flight | case |
| 22 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 headlong | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 infinite | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 infinite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | people | number | infinite property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | people not said here | the onset | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | people not said here | 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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