Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 33
The Moors attempted to force the gates, but were assailed with such showers of missiles from the windows and battlements that they were obliged to retire.
Who acts: Moors · What happens: attempt, force, assail, oblige, retire · To what, where: gates, Moors
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 (Moors), 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 Moors | det |
| 2 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 force | mark |
| 5 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 force | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 assailed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 assailed | cc |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assailed | aux:pass |
| 11 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attempted | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 showers | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 showers | amod |
| 14 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assailed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 missiles | case |
| 16 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 showers | nmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 windows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 windows | det |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 missiles | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 battlements | cc |
| 21 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 windows | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 obliged | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 obliged | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 obliged | aux:pass |
| 25 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 assailed | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 retire | mark |
| 27 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 obliged | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | the Moors | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Moors not said here | the gates | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | assail | past · passive | the Moors not said here | with such showers of missiles from the windows and battlements | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | Moors = moor | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | retire | to-infinitive | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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