Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 8
As the night closed in, the trumpets from either camp summoned the troops to retire from the combat.
Who acts: trumpets · What happens: close in, summon, retire · To what, where: night, troops, combat
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpets), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | obl |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 night | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 closed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trumpets | det |
| 8 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 camp | det |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trumpets | nmod |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 troops | det |
| 14 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 summoned | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 retire | mark |
| 16 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 summoned | advcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 combat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 combat | det |
| 19 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 retire | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close in | participle | the night not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | summon | past | the trumpets from either camp | the troops | night | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Recipient | |||
| 3 | retire | to-infinitive | the trumpets from either camp not said here | the combat | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from combat=Source |
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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