Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 55
Furious at the sight, they sallied forth to the rescue, but were repulsed by a superior force, and driven back to the great portal of the church.
Who acts: cavaliers, superior force · What happens: sally, repulse, drive back · To what, where: great portal
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavaliers, superior force), 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 | Furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 sight | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sight | det |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Furious | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sallied | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sallied | nsubj |
| 7 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Furious | conj |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 sallied | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rescue | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rescue | det |
| 11 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sallied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 repulsed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 repulsed | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 repulsed | aux:pass |
| 15 | repulsed | repulse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sallied | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 force | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 force | det |
| 18 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 force | amod |
| 19 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repulsed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driven | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 driven | cc |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 repulsed | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 driven | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 portal | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 portal | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 portal | amod |
| 27 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 church | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 church | det |
| 30 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 portal | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | past | cavaliers = cavalier | to the rescue; forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repulse | past · passive | a superior force | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drive back | participle | a superior force not said here | the great portal of the church | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to portal=Trajectory |
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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