Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 9

The pen was thrown aside to grasp the sword and spear; and men were too much taken up with battling against the evils which beset them on every side, to find time or inclination to record them.

Who acts: men, evils · What happens: throw, grasp, be, take up, beset, find · To what, where: pen, sword, men, side

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 (men, evils), 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	2 pen	det
2	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	aux:pass
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 thrown	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grasp	mark
7	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrown	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sword	det
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grasp	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spear	cc
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sword	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 much	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 men	cc
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 much	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 much	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thrown	conj
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 much	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 taken	compound:prt
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 battling	case
21	battling	battling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
22	against	against	ADP	_	24 evils	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 evils	det
24	evils	evil	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 battling	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 beset	nsubj
26	beset	beset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 evils	acl:relcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 beset	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 side	det
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 beset	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 find	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thrown	parataxis
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 inclination	cc
36	inclination	inclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 time	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 record	mark
38	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 time	acl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 record	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · passive		the pen			aside property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	grasp	to-infinitive		the sword and spear				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus
3	is	past	men				much property	tree rules
4	take up	participle	men not said here				with battling against the evils	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beset	present	the evils	men = man	every side			tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive				time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	record	to-infinitive		men = man				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 9