Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 66
There was the clash of swords, and maces, and battle-axes, with the whistling of arrows, and the hurling of darts and lances.
Who acts: clash, swords, arrows · What happens: be, clash, whistle · To what, where: hurling
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 (clash, swords, arrows), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clash | det |
| 4 | clash | clash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 swords | case |
| 6 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clash | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 maces | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 maces | cc |
| 9 | maces | mace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swords | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 axes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 axes | cc |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 axes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 battle | punct |
| 14 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whistling | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 whistling | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whistling | det |
| 18 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 axes | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 arrows | case |
| 20 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 whistling | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hurling | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hurling | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hurling | det |
| 24 | hurling | hurling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 darts | case |
| 26 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hurling | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lances | cc |
| 28 | lances | lance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 darts | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the clash of swords and maces | the hurling of darts and lances | there | battle axes nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | clash | swords and maces | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | whistle | arrows | nom whistling «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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