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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 26

Magued took a small party of chosen men, and, guided by the shepherd, forded the stream, and groped silently along the wall to the place where stood the fig tree.

Who acts: Magued · What happens: take, choose, guide, ford, grope, stand · To what, where: small party, stream, wall, fig tree

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 (Magued), 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

nsubjdetamodobjcaseamodnmodpunctccpunctconjcasedetoblpunctconjdetobjpunctccconjadvmodcasedetoblcasedetobladvmodacl:relcldetcompoundobjpunctrootMaguedPROPNtookVERBaDETsmallADJpartyNOUNofADPchosenVERBmenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTguidedVERBbyADPtheDETshepherdNOUN,PUNCTfordedVERBtheDETstreamNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgropedVERBsilentlyADValongADPtheDETwallNOUNtoADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVstoodVERBtheDETfigNOUNtreeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MaguedMaguedPROPNNumber=Sing2 tooknsubj
2tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 partydet
4smallsmallADJDegree=Pos5 partyamod
5partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing2 tookobj
6ofofADP_8 mencase
7chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 menamod
8menmanNOUNNumber=Plur5 partynmod
9,,PUNCT_12 guidedpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 guidedcc
11,,PUNCT_12 guidedpunct
12guidedguideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 tookconj
13bybyADP_15 shepherdcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 shepherddet
15shepherdshepherdNOUNNumber=Sing12 guidedobl
16,,PUNCT_17 fordedpunct
17fordedfordVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tookconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 streamdet
19streamstreamNOUNNumber=Sing17 fordedobj
20,,PUNCT_22 gropedpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 gropedcc
22gropedgropeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 tookconj
23silentlysilentlyADV_22 gropedadvmod
24alongalongADP_26 wallcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 walldet
26wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing22 gropedobl
27totoADP_29 placecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 placedet
29placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing22 gropedobl
30wherewhereADVPronType=Rel31 stoodadvmod
31stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 placeacl:relcl
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 treedet
33figfigNOUNNumber=Sing34 treecompound
34treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing31 stoodobj
35..PUNCT_2 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastMagueda small party of chosen menvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme
2chooseparticiplevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3guideparticipleMagued not said hereby the shepherdvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by shepherd=Destination
4fordpastMagued not said herethe streamtree rules
5gropepastMagued not said herethe wallto the place; silently propertyvn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent along wall=Location
6standpastthe fig treevn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus

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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