Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 47
Here they landed, and, guided by the traitor, penetrated to the heart of the sierra, laying every thing waste.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: land, guide, penetrate, lay · To what, where: traitor, thing waste
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 (soldiers), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 landed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guided | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 guided | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 guided | punct |
| 7 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 landed | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 traitor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 traitor | det |
| 10 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 penetrated | punct |
| 12 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 traitor | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 penetrated | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sierra | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sierra | det |
| 18 | sierra | sierra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laying | punct |
| 20 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 guided | advcl |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 waste | det |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waste | compound |
| 23 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laying | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | soldiers = soldier | here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guide | participle | by the traitor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by traitor=Destination | |||||
| 3 | penetrate | participle | the traitor not said here | to the heart of the sierra | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lay | gerund | every thing waste | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waste=Result |
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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