Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 15
He stationed guards, therefore, at the gates and in the towers, and made every preparation for a desperate resistance.
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: station, make · To what, where: guards, preparation
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes), 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 stationed | nsubj |
| 2 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stationed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 stationed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gates | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gates | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gates | det |
| 9 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stationed | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 towers | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 towers | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 towers | det |
| 13 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gates | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stationed | conj |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 preparation | det |
| 18 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 resistance | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 resistance | det |
| 21 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 resistance | amod |
| 22 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past | Pelistes | guards | the gates and the towers parataxis; therefore property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | Pelistes not said here | every preparation | for a desperate resistance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for resistance=Asset |
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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