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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 8

The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsula, silenced for a time the faint voice of the Muse, and drove the sons of learning from their cells.

Who acts: Moslem invasion, storm, sons · What happens: sweep, silence, drive, learn, storm · To what, where: peninsula, faint voice, sons, cells

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moslem invasion, storm, sons), 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

detnsubjcaseamodnmodnsubjacl:relcladvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctcasedetobldetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctccconjdetobjmarkaclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETstormNOUNofADPMoslemADJinvasionNOUNthatPRONsweptVERBsoADVsuddenlyADVoverADPtheDETpeninsulaNOUN,PUNCTsilencedVERBforADPaDETtimeNOUNtheDETfaintADJvoiceNOUNofADPtheDETMuseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdroveVERBtheDETsonsNOUNofSCONJlearningVERBfromADPtheirPRONcellsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 stormdet
2stormstormNOUNNumber=Sing14 silencednsubj
3ofofADP_5 invasioncase
4MoslemMoslemADJDegree=Pos5 invasionamod
5invasioninvasionNOUNNumber=Sing2 stormnmod
6thatthatPRONPronType=Rel7 sweptnsubj
7sweptsweepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 invasionacl:relcl
8sosoADV_9 suddenlyadvmod
9suddenlysuddenlyADV_7 sweptadvmod
10overoverADP_12 peninsulacase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 peninsuladet
12peninsulapeninsulaNOUNNumber=Sing7 sweptobl
13,,PUNCT_14 silencedpunct
14silencedsilenceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
15forforADP_17 timecase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 timedet
17timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing14 silencedobl
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 voicedet
19faintfaintADJDegree=Pos20 voiceamod
20voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing14 silencedobj
21ofofADP_23 Musecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Musedet
23MusemuseNOUNNumber=Sing20 voicenmod
24,,PUNCT_26 drovepunct
25andandCCONJ_26 drovecc
26drovedriveVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 silencedconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 sonsdet
28sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur26 droveobj
29ofofSCONJ_30 learningmark
30learninglearnVERBVerbForm=Ger28 sonsacl
31fromfromADP_33 cellscase
32theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 cellsnmod:poss
33cellscellNOUNNumber=Plur30 learningobl
34..PUNCT_14 silencedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sweeppastMoslem invasionthe peninsulasuddenly propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over peninsula=Trajectory
2silenceparticiplethe storm of Moslem invasionthe faint voice of the Musetimevn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voice=Patient
3drivepastthe storm of Moslem invasion not said herethe sonsvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
4learngerundthe sons not said heresons's cellsvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cell=Source
5stormMoslem invasionnom storm «phenomenon 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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