Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 9
He pitched his tents before its walls, and made preparations to attack it with all his force.
Who acts: chieftain, preparations · What happens: pitch, make, attack · To what, where: tents, walls, preparations, place
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 (chieftain, preparations), 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 | 2 pitched | nsubj |
| 2 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pitched | obj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 walls | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 walls | nmod:poss |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pitched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pitched | conj |
| 11 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 attack | mark |
| 13 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 attack | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 force | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 force | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 force | nmod:poss |
| 18 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attack | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pitch | past | chieftain | chieftain's tents | place's walls | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme before wall=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | chieftain not said here | preparations | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attack | to-infinitive | preparations not said here | place | with chieftain's force | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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