Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 25
The alarm of the infidel invasion had spread throughout the land, and roused the Gothic valour of the inhabitants.
What happens: spread, rouse, alarm · To what, where: alarm, land, Gothic valour, infidel invasion
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: 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 alarm | det |
| 2 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 invasion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 invasion | det |
| 5 | infidel | infidel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 invasion | compound |
| 6 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 alarm | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | aux |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roused | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 roused | cc |
| 14 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 valour | det |
| 16 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 valour | amod |
| 17 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roused | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 inhabitants | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 inhabitants | det |
| 20 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 valour | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · perfect · passive | the alarm of the infidel invasion | the land | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme throughout land=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rouse | past | the Gothic valour of the inhabitants | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Patient | |||||
| 3 | alarm | the infidel invasion | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: of=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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