Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 35
In an instant a deluge of missiles of every sort was rained upon the astonished Moslems.
What happens: rain · To what, where: deluge, instant
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rained | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deluge | det |
| 5 | deluge | deluge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rained | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 missiles | case |
| 7 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 deluge | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sort | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missiles | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rained | aux:pass |
| 12 | rained | rain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 Moslems | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Moslems | det |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Moslems | amod |
| 16 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 rained | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | past · passive | a deluge of missiles of every sort | a instant | upon the astonished Moslems | 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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