Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 26
At sight of this signal the Arabs, in ambush beyond the river, rose with a great shout, and attacked the multitude who were thronging to the church of St. Leocadia.
Who acts: multitude · What happens: rise, attack, throng, sight · To what, where: sight, multitude, signal
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 (multitude), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sight | case |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 signal | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 signal | det |
| 5 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Arabs | det |
| 7 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 signal | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ambush | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 ambush | case |
| 10 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Arabs | appos |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ambush | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
| 15 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 shout | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shout | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shout | amod |
| 19 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attacked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 attacked | cc |
| 22 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rose | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 multitude | det |
| 24 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attacked | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 thronging | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thronging | aux |
| 27 | thronging | throng | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 multitude | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 church | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 church | det |
| 30 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thronging | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Leocadia | case |
| 32 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Leocadia | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Leocadia | Leocadia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 church | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | sight of this signal | with a great shout | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | attack | past | the multitude | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent multitude=Patient | |||||
| 3 | throng | past · progressive | the multitude | to the church of Leocadia St. | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight | this signal | nom sight «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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