Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 43

The miserable wretch possessed a cabin and a little patch of ground among the mountains, and offered, if these should be protected from ravage, to inform the Arab commander of a way by which troops of horse might be safely introduced into the bosom of the sierra, and the whole subdued.

Who acts: miserable wretch, way · What happens: possess, offer, protect, inform, introduce, subdue · To what, where: cabin, these, Arab commander, troops, bosom, whole

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 (miserable wretch, way), 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	3 wretch	det
2	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wretch	amod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	nsubj
4	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cabin	det
6	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 patch	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 patch	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 patch	amod
10	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cabin	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ground	case
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 patch	nmod
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 mountains	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountains	det
15	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 possessed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
18	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 possessed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 protected	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 protected	mark
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 protected	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 protected	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 protected	aux:pass
24	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 offered	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 ravage	case
26	ravage	ravage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 protected	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 inform	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 inform	mark
29	inform	inform	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 possessed	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 commander	det
31	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 commander	amod
32	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inform	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 way	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 commander	nmod
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 introduced	obl
38	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	44 introduced	nsubj:pass
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 horse	case
40	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 troops	nmod
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 introduced	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 introduced	aux:pass
43	safely	safely	ADV	_	44 introduced	advmod
44	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 way	acl:relcl
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 bosom	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 bosom	det
47	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 introduced	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 sierra	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sierra	det
50	sierra	sierra	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bosom	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 subdued	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 subdued	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 whole	det
54	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 subdued	obl:unmarked
55	subdued	subdue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 inform	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	past	the miserable wretch	a cabin and a little patch of ground		among the mountains	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cabin=Theme
2	offer	participle	the miserable wretch not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	protect a condition, not said to happen	should · passive		these		from ravage	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from ravage=Theme
4	inform speech: other	to-infinitive		the Arab commander of a way			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent commander=Recipient
5	introduce	might · passive	a way	troops of horse	the bosom of the sierra	safely property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
6	subdue	participle		the whole			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	bosom			the sierra			nom bosom «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 43