Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3

After a few days’ march, Don Roderick arrived in sight of the Moslem army, encamped on the banks of the Guadalete[23], where that beautiful stream winds through the fertile land of Xeres.

Who acts: Don, beautiful stream · What happens: arrive, encamp, wind, sight · To what, where: sight, 23, banks, fertile land, Moslem army

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, beautiful stream), 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	After	after	ADP	_	6 march	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 march	nmod:poss
5	’	's	PART	_	4 days	case
6	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 march	punct
8	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	nsubj
9	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Don	flat
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 sight	case
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arrived	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 army	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 army	det
15	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 army	amod
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 encamped	punct
18	encamped	encamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 arrived	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 banks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 banks	det
21	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 encamped	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Guadalete	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Guadalete	det
24	Guadalete	Guadalete	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 banks	nmod
25	[	[	PUNCT	_	26 23	punct
26	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 encamped	obl
27	]	]	PUNCT	_	26 23	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 winds	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 winds	advmod
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 stream	det
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stream	amod
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 winds	nsubj
33	winds	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 encamped	conj
34	through	through	ADP	_	37 land	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 land	det
36	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 land	amod
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 winds	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Xeres	case
39	Xeres	Xeres	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 land	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	arrive	past	Don		sight of the Moslem army	after a few days's march	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	encamp	past	Don not said here	23	the banks of the Guadalete		tree rules
3	wind	present	that beautiful stream		the fertile land of Xeres		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory
4	sight			the Moslem army			nom sight «cognition 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3