Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 5
The Arab warriors pitched their tents in the vega, on the borders of the river, and prepared for a tedious siege.
Who acts: Arab warriors · What happens: pitch, prepare · To what, where: tents, vega
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 (Arab warriors), 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 | 3 warriors | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warriors | amod |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pitched | nsubj |
| 4 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pitched | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vega | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vega | det |
| 9 | vega | vega | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pitched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 borders | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 borders | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 borders | det |
| 13 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pitched | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 borders | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prepared | cc |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pitched | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 siege | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 siege | det |
| 22 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 siege | amod |
| 23 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepared | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pitch | past | the Arab warriors | warriors's tents | the vega | on the borders of the river | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme in vega=Destination | ||
| 2 | prepare | participle | for a tedious siege | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for siege=Beneficiary |
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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