Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 9

Guided by the count, the troops of Taric penetrated into various parts of the country, and laid waste the land; bringing back loads of spoil to their stronghold at the rock of Calpe.

Who acts: troops · What happens: guide, penetrate, lay, waste, bring back · To what, where: various parts, land, loads, stronghold

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troops), 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	Guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 count	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 count	det
4	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guided	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 penetrated	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 troops	det
7	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 penetrated	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Taric	case
9	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 troops	nmod
10	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Guided	parataxis
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 parts	case
12	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 parts	amod
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 penetrated	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parts	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laid	cc
19	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 penetrated	conj
20	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 laid	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 land	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 waste	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 bringing	punct
24	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Guided	advcl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 bringing	advmod
26	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bringing	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 spoil	case
28	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 loads	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 stronghold	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 stronghold	nmod:poss
31	stronghold	stronghold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bringing	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 rock	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rock	det
34	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stronghold	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Calpe	case
36	Calpe	Calpe	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 rock	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Guided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guide	participle				by the count	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by count=Destination
2	penetrate	past	the troops of Taric		various parts of the country		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	the troops of Taric not said here				tree rules
4	waste	infinitive	the troops of Taric not said here	the land			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
5	bring back	gerund		loads of spoil	troops's stronghold at the rock of Calpe		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent load=Theme to stronghold=Destination

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, Chapter XI., sentence 9

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 9