Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 5

If their pursuers gained upon them, they threw by their household goods and whatever was of burden, and thought themselves fortunate to escape, naked and destitute, to a place of refuge.

Who acts: pursuers, flocks · What happens: gain, throw, be, think, escape, destitute · To what, where: flocks

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pursuers, flocks), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 gained	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 pursuers	nmod:poss
3	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gained	nsubj
4	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	advcl
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gained	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gained	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	nsubj
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 goods	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 goods	nmod:poss
12	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goods	compound
13	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 threw	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 burden	cc
15	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	18 burden	det:predet
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 burden	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 burden	case
18	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 thought	obj
23	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thought	xcomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 escape	mark
25	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 fortunate	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 naked	punct
27	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fortunate	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 destitute	cc
29	destitute	destitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 naked	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 place	punct
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 place	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 thought	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 refuge	case
35	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gain a condition, not said to happen	past	flocks's pursuers		upon flocks = flock	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	throw	past	flocks = flock		by flocks's household goods	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by goods=Destination
3	is	past	flocks = flock not said here		of whatever burden	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	flocks = flock not said here	flocks = flock	a place of refuge ccomp; fortunate property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
5	escape	to-infinitive	flocks = flock not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	destitute	present	flocks = flock not said here			tree rules

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 I., sentence 5

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 5