Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 32

The Christians were slowly driven from street to street, and square to square, disputing every inch of ground; until, finding another body of the enemy approaching to attack them in rear, they took refuge in a convent, and succeeded in throwing to and barring the ponderous doors.

Who acts: Christians, enemy · What happens: drive, square, dispute, find, approach, attack · To what, where: Christians, street, inch, body, rear, refuge

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 (Christians, enemy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Christians	det
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 driven	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 driven	aux:pass
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 driven	advmod
5	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 street	case
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driven	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 street	case
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driven	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 square	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 square	cc
12	square	square	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 driven	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 square	mark
14	square	square	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 square	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disputing	punct
16	disputing	dispute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 square	advcl
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 inch	det
18	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 disputing	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ground	case
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inch	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 took	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 finding	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 finding	punct
24	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 took	advcl
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 body	det
26	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 finding	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 enemy	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 enemy	det
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 body	nmod
30	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 enemy	acl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 attack	mark
32	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 approaching	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 attack	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 rear	case
35	rear	rear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 attack	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 finding	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 took	nsubj
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 driven	parataxis
39	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 convent	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 convent	det
42	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 succeeded	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 succeeded	cc
45	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 took	conj
46	in	in	SCONJ	_	47 throwing	mark
47	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 succeeded	advcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	47 throwing	fixed
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 barring	cc
50	barring	bar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	47 throwing	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 doors	det
52	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 doors	amod
53	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 barring	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past · passive		the Christians	street	to street; slowly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from street=Destination to street=Initial_Location
2	square	infinitive					tree rules
3	square	to-infinitive					vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dispute	gerund		every inch of ground			tree rules
5	find	gerund	Christians = christian not said here	another body of the enemy			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic
6	approach	gerund	the enemy not said here				tree rules
7	attack	to-infinitive	the enemy not said here	Christians = christian	rear		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	take	past	Christians = christian	refuge	a convent		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in convent=Location
9	succeed	past	Christians = christian not said here				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	throw	gerund	Christians = christian not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	bar	gerund	Christians = christian not said here	the ponderous doors			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=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, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 32