Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 2

The inhabitants of the towns and villages gathered around them as they applied at their gates for food, or laid themselves down, faint and wounded, beside the public fountains.

Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: gather, apply, lay down · To what, where: gates, inhabitants, public fountains

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 (inhabitants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 inhabitants	det
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gathered	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 towns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 towns	det
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inhabitants	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 villages	cc
7	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 towns	conj
8	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gathered	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 applied	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 applied	nsubj
13	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gathered	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gates	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 gates	nmod:poss
16	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 applied	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 food	case
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 applied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laid	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 laid	cc
21	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gathered	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 laid	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 laid	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 faint	punct
25	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 laid	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wounded	cc
27	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 faint	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fountains	punct
29	beside	beside	ADP	_	32 fountains	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fountains	det
31	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fountains	amod
32	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the inhabitants of the towns and villages			around villages = village	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	apply	past	inhabitants = inhabitant		inhabitants's gates	for food	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for food=Eventuality
3	lay down	past	the inhabitants of the towns and villages not said here	inhabitants = inhabitant	the public fountains		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme beside fountain=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, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 2