Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 66
Thus did they expiate their treachery to their country in the fatal battle of the Gaudalete.
Who acts: nephews · What happens: expiate, battle · To what, where: treachery, fatal battle, Gaudalete
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nephews), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 expiate | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expiate | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expiate | nsubj |
| 4 | expiate | expiate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 6 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expiate | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expiate | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battle | det |
| 12 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 battle | amod |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expiate | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Gaudalete | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Gaudalete | det |
| 16 | Gaudalete | Gaudalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 battle | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expiate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expiate | past · do-support | nephews = nephew | nephews's treachery | the fatal battle of the Gaudalete | to nephews's country; thus property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | battle | the Gaudalete | nom battle «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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