Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 25

The inhabitants fled with affright on hearing the Moorish trumpets, or beholding the approach of the turbaned horsemen, and plunged deeper into the recesses of their mountains.

Who acts: inhabitants, turbaned horsemen · What happens: flee, hear, behold, plunge, approach, recess · To what, where: Moorish trumpets, approach, recesses, mountains

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants, turbaned horsemen), 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	2 inhabitants	det
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fled	nsubj
3	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 affright	case
5	affright	affright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fled	obl
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fled	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trumpets	det
9	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trumpets	amod
10	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hearing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beholding	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 beholding	cc
13	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hearing	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 approach	det
15	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beholding	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 horsemen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horsemen	det
18	turbaned	turbaned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 horsemen	amod
19	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 approach	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 plunged	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plunged	cc
22	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fled	conj
23	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 plunged	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 recesses	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 recesses	det
26	recesses	recess	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plunged	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 mountains	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mountains	nmod:poss
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 recesses	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flee	past	the inhabitants			with affright	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	gerund	the inhabitants not said here	the Moorish trumpets			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trumpet=Stimulus
3	behold	gerund	the inhabitants not said here	the approach of the turbaned horsemen			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus
4	plunge	past	the inhabitants not said here		the recesses of inhabitants's mountains	deep property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into recess=Initial_Location
5	approach		the turbaned horsemen				nom approach «act intransitive»: of=agent
6	recess			inhabitants's mountains			nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient

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, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 25