Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 21
A few Christians hastily assembled from the neighbourhood, and opposed their landing, but were easily put to flight.
Who acts: few Christians · What happens: assemble, oppose, put · To what, where: neighbourhood, landing
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 (few Christians), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Christians | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Christians | amod |
| 3 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 assembled | nsubj |
| 4 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 5 assembled | advmod |
| 5 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 neighbourhood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neighbourhood | det |
| 8 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assembled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opposed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opposed | cc |
| 11 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assembled | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 landing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opposed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 17 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 assembled | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 flight | case |
| 20 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | a few Christians | the neighbourhood | hastily property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | oppose | past | a few Christians not said here | Christians's landing | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past · passive | a few Christians not said here | to flight; easily property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
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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