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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 15

The infidels, they said, were strengthening themselves in the land; host after host were pouring in from Africa: the sea coast of Andalusia glittered with spears and scimitars.

Who acts: infidels, host, sea coast · What happens: say, strengthen, pour in, glitter · To what, where: infidels, land, Africa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infidels, host, sea coast), 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

detnsubjpunctnsubjpunctauxadvclobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjcasenmodauxadvcladvmodcaseoblpunctdetcompoundnsubjcasenmodconjcaseoblccconjpunctrootTheDETinfidelsNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONsaidVERB,PUNCTwereAUXstrengtheningVERBthemselvesPRONinADPtheDETlandNOUN;PUNCThostNOUNafterADPhostNOUNwereAUXpouringVERBinADVfromADPAfricaPROPN:PUNCTtheDETseaNOUNcoastNOUNofADPAndalusiaPROPNglitteredVERBwithADPspearsNOUNandCCONJscimitarsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 infidelsdet
2infidelsinfidelNOUNNumber=Plur5 saidnsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 infidelspunct
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs5 saidnsubj
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6,,PUNCT_8 strengtheningpunct
7werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 strengtheningaux
8strengtheningstrengthenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 saidadvcl
9themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes8 strengtheningobj
10ininADP_12 landcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 landdet
12landlandNOUNNumber=Sing8 strengtheningobl
13;;PUNCT_18 pouringpunct
14hosthostNOUNNumber=Sing18 pouringnsubj
15afterafterADP_16 hostcase
16hosthostNOUNNumber=Sing14 hostnmod
17werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 pouringaux
18pouringpourVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 saidadvcl
19ininADV_18 pouringadvmod
20fromfromADP_21 Africacase
21AfricaAfricaPROPNNumber=Sing18 pouringobl
22::PUNCT_28 glitteredpunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 coastdet
24seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing25 coastcompound
25coastcoastNOUNNumber=Sing28 glitterednsubj
26ofofADP_27 Andalusiacase
27AndalusiaAndalusiaPROPNNumber=Sing25 coastnmod
28glitteredglitterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 saidconj
29withwithADP_30 spearscase
30spearsspearNOUNNumber=Plur28 glitteredobl
31andandCCONJ_32 scimitarscc
32scimitarsscimitarNOUNNumber=Plur30 spearsconj
33..PUNCT_5 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe infidelsvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2strengthenpast · progressivethe infidels not said hereinfidels = infidelthe landvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3pour inpast · progressivehost after hostAfricavn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from africa=Source
4glitterpastthe sea coast of Andalusiawith spears and scimitarsvn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with spear=Theme

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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