Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 20
Three thousand Arabs were at the same time placed in ambush among rocks and thickets, in a place on the opposite side of the river, commanding a view of the city.
Who acts: thousand Arabs · What happens: be, place, command, view · To what, where: same time, ambush, view, city · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thousand Arabs), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thousand | compound |
| 2 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Arabs | nummod |
| 3 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 time | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ambush | case |
| 11 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placed | obl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 placed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thickets | cc |
| 15 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rocks | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 place | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rocks | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 side | amod |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 river | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 river | det |
| 26 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 commanding | punct |
| 28 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 time | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 view | det |
| 30 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 commanding | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 city | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 view | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thousand Arabs | at the same time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | the same time not said here | ambush | among rocks and thickets and a place on the opposite side of the river | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ambush=Destination | |||
| 3 | command | gerund | thousand Arabs not said here | a view of the city | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | view | the city | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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