Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 51
Though the enemy were two to one, my Moslems never shunned the combat!”
Who acts: Moslems · What happens: be, not shun · To what, where: two, one, combat
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 (Moslems), 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 | Though | though | ADP | _ | 3 enemy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enemy | det |
| 3 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shunned | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 two | cop |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 enemy | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 enemy | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Moslems | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Moslems | Moslems | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 shunned | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 shunned | advmod |
| 12 | shunned | shun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 combat | det |
| 14 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shunned | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 shunned | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shunned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | two | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not shun | past | my Moslems | the combat | though the enemy | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent combat=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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