Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 40
Taric, who had beheld cities and castles surrendering without a blow, was enraged at being braved by a mere horde of mountain boors, and made another attempt to penetrate the mountains, but was again waylaid and opposed with horrible slaughter.
Who acts: Taric, cities, mere horde · What happens: behold, surrender, enrage, brave, make, penetrate · To what, where: cities, Taric, attempt, 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 (Taric, cities, mere horde), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 enraged | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beheld | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beheld | aux |
| 5 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Taric | acl:relcl |
| 6 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beheld | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 castles | cc |
| 8 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cities | conj |
| 9 | surrendering | surrender | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cities | acl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 blow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blow | det |
| 12 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrendering | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taric | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enraged | aux:pass |
| 15 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 braved | mark |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 braved | aux:pass |
| 18 | braved | brave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 enraged | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 horde | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 horde | det |
| 21 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 horde | amod |
| 22 | horde | horde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 braved | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 boors | case |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boors | compound |
| 25 | boors | boor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 horde | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enraged | parataxis |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 attempt | det |
| 30 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 penetrate | mark |
| 32 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 attempt | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mountains | det |
| 34 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 penetrate | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 waylaid | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 waylaid | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 waylaid | aux:pass |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 waylaid | advmod |
| 39 | waylaid | waylay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 made | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 opposed | cc |
| 41 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 waylaid | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 slaughter | case |
| 43 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 slaughter | amod |
| 44 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 opposed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past · perfect | Taric | cities and castles | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | surrender | gerund | cities and castles not said here | without a blow | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enrage | past · passive | Taric | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | brave | gerund · passive | a mere horde of mountain boors | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | past | another attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | |||||
| 6 | penetrate | to-infinitive | the mountains | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | |||||
| 7 | waylay | past · passive | again | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | oppose | participle | with horrible slaughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with slaughter=Co-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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