Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 9

The Christians pitched their tents about the hour of vespers, at a short league distant from the enemy, and remained gazing with anxiety and awe upon this barbaric host that had caused such terror and desolation in the land: for the first sight of a hostile encampment in a country disused to war, is terrible to the newly enlisted soldier.

Who acts: Christians, barbaric host · What happens: pitch, remain, gaze, cause, disuse, be · To what, where: tents, such terror, land, country, hostile encampment

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 (Christians, barbaric host), 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 Christians	det
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 pitched	nsubj
3	pitched	pitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tents	nmod:poss
5	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pitched	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pitched	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 vespers	case
10	vespers	vesper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hour	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 league	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 league	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 league	det
14	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 league	amod
15	league	league	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pitched	obl
16	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 league	amod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 enemy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 enemy	det
19	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distant	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 remained	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 remained	cc
22	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pitched	conj
23	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 remained	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 anxiety	case
25	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gazing	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 awe	cc
27	awe	awe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 anxiety	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 host	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 host	det
30	barbaric	barbaric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 host	amod
31	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gazing	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 caused	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 caused	aux
34	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 host	acl:relcl
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 terror	amod
36	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caused	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 desolation	cc
38	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 terror	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 land	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 land	det
41	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 caused	obl
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 sight	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 sight	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sight	det
45	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 sight	amod
46	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remained	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 encampment	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 encampment	det
49	hostile	hostile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 encampment	amod
50	encampment	encampment	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sight	nmod
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 country	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 country	det
53	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 encampment	nmod
54	disused	disuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 country	acl
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 war	case
56	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 disused	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 terrible	punct
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 terrible	cop
59	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sight	conj
60	to	to	ADP	_	64 soldier	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 soldier	det
62	newly	newly	ADV	_	63 enlisted	advmod
63	enlisted	enlist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 soldier	amod
64	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 terrible	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pitch	past	the Christians	Christians's tents		hour	at a short league	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme at league=Destination
2	remain	past	the Christians not said here				for the first sight of a hostile encampment in a country	tree rules
3	gaze	gerund	the Christians not said here				with anxiety and awe; upon this barbaric host	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon host=Theme
4	cause	past · perfect	this barbaric host	such terror and desolation	the land			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition terror=Patient
5	disuse	participle		a country not said here			to war	tree rules
6	is	present	the Christians not said here				to the enlisted soldier; terrible property	tree rules
7	enlist	participle					newly property	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
8	sight			a hostile encampment in a country				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 9

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 9