Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 41

When Taric beheld his troops retreating before the enemy, he threw himself before them, and, rising in his stirrups, “Oh, Moslems! conquerors of Africa!” cried he, “whither would you fly?

Who acts: Taric, Moslems, you · What happens: behold, retreat, throw, rise, cry, fly · To what, where: troops, Taric, stirrups · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Taric, Moslems, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 beheld	advmod
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beheld	nsubj
3	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 troops	nmod:poss
5	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 beheld	obj
6	retreating	retreat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 beheld	advcl
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 enemy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enemy	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retreating	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beheld	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 threw	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rising	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rising	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rising	punct
19	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 stirrups	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 stirrups	nmod:poss
22	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rising	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Moslems	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 Moslems	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 Moslems	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 cried	nsubj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Moslems	punct
29	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 cried	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Africa	case
31	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 conquerors	nmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Africa	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 Africa	punct
34	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rising	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cried	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fly	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 fly	punct
38	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	41 fly	advmod
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 fly	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 fly	nsubj
41	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 cried	conj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	behold	past	Taric	Taric's troops				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troops=Stimulus
2	retreat	gerund	Taric not said here			before the enemy		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	throw	past	Taric	Taric		before troops		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme before they=Destination
4	rise	gerund	Taric not said here		Taric's stirrups			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stirrup=Location
5	cry speech: express	past	Moslems	Taric			conquerors of Africa nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	fly in a quote	would	you				whither property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 41

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 41