Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 56
The enemy entered pell-mell with them, fighting from aisle to aisle, from altar to altar, and in the courts and cloisters of the convent.
Who acts: enemy, pell · What happens: enter, mell, fight · To what, where: courts, aisle
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 (enemy, pell), 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 enemy | det |
| 2 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pell | pell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mell | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mell | punct |
| 6 | mell | mell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entered | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fighting | punct |
| 10 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 mell | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 aisle | case |
| 12 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fighting | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 aisle | case |
| 14 | aisle | aisle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fighting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 altar | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 altar | case |
| 17 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fighting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 altar | case |
| 19 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 altar | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 courts | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 courts | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 courts | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 courts | det |
| 24 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entered | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cloisters | cc |
| 26 | cloisters | cloister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 courts | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 convent | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 convent | det |
| 29 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cloisters | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the enemy | the courts and cloisters of the convent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mell | infinitive | pell | with cavaliers = cavalier | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | pell not said here | aisle | to aisle; from altar to altar | vn battle-36.4-1 «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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