Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 4
They are pent up within yon rocky mountain, we must assail them in their rugged hole.
Who acts: infidels, we · What happens: be, assail · To what, where: infidels, rugged hole
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 (infidels, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pent | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pent | cop |
| 3 | pent | pent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pent | compound:prt |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 6 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountain | compound |
| 7 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mountain | amod |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 assail | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 assail | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 assail | aux |
| 12 | assail | assail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pent | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 assail | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hole | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hole | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hole | amod |
| 17 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assail | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | infidels = infidel | within yon rocky mountain; pent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assail | must | we | infidels = infidel | infidels's rugged hole | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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