Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 15
Upon this there was a great stir of preparation; and numerous vessels were assembled and equipped at Tangier, to convey the invading army across the Straits.
Who acts: great stir · What happens: be, assemble, equip, convey, invade, stir · To what, where: this, numerous vessels, Tangier, invading army, Straits, preparation
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great stir), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 was | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stir | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stir | amod |
| 7 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 preparation | case |
| 9 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 assembled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 assembled | cc |
| 12 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vessels | amod |
| 13 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 assembled | aux:pass |
| 15 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 was | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 equipped | cc |
| 17 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 assembled | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Tangier | case |
| 19 | Tangier | Tangier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 equipped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 convey | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 convey | mark |
| 22 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 assembled | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 24 | invading | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 army | amod |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 convey | obj |
| 26 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 Straits | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Straits | det |
| 28 | Straits | Strait | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 convey | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great stir of preparation | this; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon this=Location | ||||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | numerous vessels | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | equip | participle | Tangier | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | convey | to-infinitive | the invading army | the Straits | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent army=Topic | ||||
| 5 | invade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | stir | preparation | nom stir «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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