Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 29

The rising sun began to shine along the glistening waters of the Guadalete as the Moorish army, squadron after squadron, came sweeping down a gentle declivity to the sound of martial music.

Who acts: rising sun · What happens: rise, begin, shine, glisten, come, sweep down · To what, where: glistening waters, gentle declivity, sound

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rising sun), 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	3 sun	det
2	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sun	amod
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shine	mark
6	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	along	along	ADP	_	10 waters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 waters	det
9	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 waters	amod
10	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shine	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Guadalete	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Guadalete	det
13	Guadalete	guadalete	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waters	nmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 army	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 army	det
16	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 army	amod
17	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shine	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 squadron	punct
19	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 army	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 squadron	case
21	squadron	squadron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 squadron	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
24	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 came	advcl
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sweeping	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 declivity	det
27	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 declivity	amod
28	declivity	declivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sweeping	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 sound	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sound	det
31	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sweeping	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 music	case
33	martial	martial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 music	amod
34	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sound	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the rising sun				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shine	to-infinitive	the rising sun not said here		the glistening waters of the Guadalete	as the Moorish army and squadron after squadron	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along water=Location
4	glisten	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the rising sun not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sweep down	gerund	the rising sun not said here	a gentle declivity	the sound of martial music		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent declivity=Theme to sound=Trajectory

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, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 29

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 29