Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 19
On a dark night, a chosen band of Moslem warriors approached the part of the walls guarded by the Jews, and were secretly admitted into a postern gate and concealed within a tower.
Who acts: chosen band · What happens: choose, approach, guard, admit, conceal · To what, where: part, walls, postern gate
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chosen band), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approached | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 band | det |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 band | amod |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approached | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 warriors | case |
| 10 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 warriors | amod |
| 11 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 band | nmod |
| 12 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 approached | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 walls | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Jews | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Jews | det |
| 21 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 guarded | obl:agent |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 admitted | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 admitted | cc |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 admitted | aux:pass |
| 25 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 26 admitted | advmod |
| 26 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 approached | parataxis |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 gate | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 gate | det |
| 29 | postern | postern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gate | compound |
| 30 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 admitted | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 concealed | cc |
| 32 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 admitted | conj |
| 33 | within | within | ADP | _ | 35 tower | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tower | det |
| 35 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 concealed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | approach | past | a chosen band of Moslem warriors | the part of the walls | night | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 3 | guard | participle | the walls not said here | the Jews obl:agent | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | past · passive | a postern gate | secretly property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | ||||
| 5 | conceal | past | within a tower | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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