Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 7
The Arab invaders were a hundred thousand strong, most of them veteran troops, seasoned in warfare and accustomed to victory.
Who acts: Arab invaders, most · What happens: be, troops, season, accustom · To what, where: warfare
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab invaders, most), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 invaders | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 invaders | amod |
| 3 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strong | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thousand | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 strong | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 troops | punct |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 troops | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 most | nmod |
| 13 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 troops | compound |
| 14 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 strong | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seasoned | punct |
| 16 | seasoned | season | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 strong | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 warfare | case |
| 18 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seasoned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 accustomed | cc |
| 20 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 seasoned | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 victory | case |
| 22 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accustomed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Arab invaders | a hundred thousand obl:unmarked; strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | troops | most of invaders | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | season | participle | warfare | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | accustom | participle | to victory | tree rules |
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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