Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 64
They beheld before them a great field of battle, where Christians and Moslems were engaged in deadly conflict.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: behold, engage · To what, where: great field, Christians, deadly conflict
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beheld | nsubj |
| 2 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beheld | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 field | amod |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 field | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 engaged | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 engaged | advmod |
| 12 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Moslems | cc |
| 14 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Christians | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 engaged | aux:pass |
| 16 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 battle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 conflict | case |
| 18 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 conflict | amod |
| 19 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 engaged | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | attendants = attendant | a great field of battle | before picture | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | Christians and Moslems | in deadly conflict goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in conflict=Goal |
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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