Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 42

He was on the point of abandoning the attempt, and returning to the vega, when a Christian boor sought his camp, and was admitted to his presence.

Who acts: son, point, Christian boor · What happens: be, abandon, return, seek, admit · To what, where: point, attempt, camp, presence

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 (son, point, Christian boor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 point	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 point	cop
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 point	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 abandoning	mark
7	abandoning	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 point	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attempt	det
9	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 abandoning	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returning	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 returning	cc
12	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 abandoning	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 vega	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 vega	det
15	vega	vega	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sought	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sought	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boor	det
19	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boor	amod
20	boor	boor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	nsubj
21	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 point	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 camp	nmod:poss
23	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 admitted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 admitted	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 admitted	aux:pass
27	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 sought	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 presence	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 presence	nmod:poss
30	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 admitted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	son			the point		tree rules
2	abandon	gerund	the point not said here	the attempt				vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme attempt=Source
3	return	gerund	the point not said here				to the vega result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to vega=Result
4	seek	past	a Christian boor	son's camp				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme
5	admit speech: other	past · passive	a Christian boor not said here		son's presence			vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to presence=Recipient

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 42