Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 34

On passing the last outpost, when the guards were half slumbering on their arms, he was overheard and summoned, but leaped lightly into the saddle and put spurs to his steed.

Who acts: guards · What happens: pass, slumber, overhear, summon, leap, put · To what, where: last outpost, arms, page, saddle, spurs

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 overheard	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outpost	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outpost	amod
5	outpost	outpost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slumbering	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 slumbering	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guards	det
9	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slumbering	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slumbering	aux
11	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 slumbering	advmod
12	slumbering	slumber	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 passing	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 arms	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slumbering	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 overheard	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overheard	aux:pass
19	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 summoned	cc
21	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 overheard	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaped	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 leaped	cc
24	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overheard	conj
25	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	24 leaped	advmod
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 saddle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 saddle	det
28	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leaped	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
30	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 leaped	conj
31	spurs	spur	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 put	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 steed	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 steed	nmod:poss
34	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 overheard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund		the last outpost			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme outpost=Trajectory
2	slumber	past · progressive	the guards		guards's arms	half property	vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overhear	past · passive		page			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	summon	participle					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	leap	past			the saddle	lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into saddle=Destination
6	put	infinitive		spurs		to page's steed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent spur=Goal

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, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 34