Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 25
On a dark and tempestuous night, the Moslems approached to the end of the bridge which crosses the Guadalquivir, and remained in ambush.
Who acts: Moslems, bridge · What happens: approach, cross, remain · To what, where: end, Guadalquivir, ambush
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 (Moslems, bridge), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tempestuous | cc |
| 5 | tempestuous | tempestuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dark | conj |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moslems | det |
| 9 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 approached | nsubj |
| 10 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bridge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 crosses | nsubj |
| 18 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Guadalquivir | det |
| 20 | Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 crosses | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 remained | cc |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 approached | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ambush | case |
| 25 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the Moslems | to the end of the bridge; night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cross | present | the bridge | the Guadalquivir | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guadalquivir=Patient | ||||
| 3 | remain | participle | the Moslems not said here | ambush | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ambush=Location |
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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