Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 51

While the warriors rested on their arms in grim and menacing tranquillity among the cliffs, this venerable prelate descended to the Arab tents in the valley, to conduct the capitulation.

Who acts: warriors · What happens: rest, menace, descend, conduct · To what, where: arms, venerable prelate, valley, capitulation

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 (warriors), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 rested	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warriors	det
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rested	nsubj
4	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 conduct	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rested	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 tranquillity	case
9	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tranquillity	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 menacing	cc
11	menacing	menace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 grim	conj
12	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 cliffs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cliffs	det
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rested	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prelate	punct
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 prelate	det
18	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 prelate	amod
19	prelate	prelate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cliffs	appos
20	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prelate	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 tents	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tents	det
23	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tents	amod
24	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 descended	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 valley	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 valley	det
27	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 descended	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 conduct	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 conduct	mark
30	conduct	conduct	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 capitulation	det
32	capitulation	capitulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 conduct	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 conduct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	the warriors		mountains's arms	in grim tranquillity; among the cliffs	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location
2	menace	gerund	the warriors not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	descend	participle		this venerable prelate not said here	the valley	to the Arab tents	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tent=Location
4	conduct	to-infinitive		the capitulation			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capitulation=Theme

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 51

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 51