Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 37

With this handful of warriors he endeavoured to retrieve the day, when he was assailed by Tenderos, a partisan of Count Julian, at the head of a body of recreant Christians.

Who acts: rest, Tenderos · What happens: endeavour, retrieve, assail · To what, where: rest, head

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, Tenderos), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 handful	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 handful	det
3	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 endeavoured	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 warriors	case
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 handful	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 endeavoured	nsubj
7	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 retrieve	mark
9	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 endeavoured	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 retrieve	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 assailed	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 assailed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 assailed	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 assailed	aux:pass
16	assailed	assail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 endeavoured	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 Tenderos	case
18	Tenderos	Tenderos	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 assailed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 partisan	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 partisan	det
21	partisan	partisan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Tenderos	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Julian	case
23	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Julian	compound
24	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 partisan	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 head	punct
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 head	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 assailed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 body	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 body	det
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 head	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Christians	case
33	recreant	recreant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Christians	amod
34	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 body	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 endeavoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavour	past	rest				with this handful of warriors	tree rules
2	retrieve	to-infinitive	rest not said here			day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	assail	past · passive	Tenderos	rest	the head of a body of recreant Christians			vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 37