Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 65
They heard the rush and tramp of steeds, the blast of trump and clarion, the clash of cymbal, and the stormy din of a thousand drums.
Who acts: attendants, cymbal, thousand drums · What happens: hear, blast, clash, din · To what, where: rush, trump
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, cymbal, thousand drums), 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 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rush | det |
| 4 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tramp | cc |
| 6 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rush | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 steeds | case |
| 8 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tramp | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blast | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blast | det |
| 11 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trump | case |
| 13 | trump | trump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blast | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clarion | cc |
| 15 | clarion | clarion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trump | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clash | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clash | det |
| 18 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trump | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cymbal | case |
| 20 | cymbal | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clash | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 din | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 din | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 din | det |
| 24 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 din | amod |
| 25 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 drums | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 thousand | det |
| 28 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 drums | nummod |
| 29 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 din | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | attendants = attendant | the rush and tramp of steeds | the blast of trump and clarion and the clash of cymbal conj; the stormy din of thousand drums conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rush=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | blast | trump and clarion and the clash of cymbal | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | clash | cymbal | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | din | thousand drums | nom din «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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