Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 6

One evening, as Taric was seated in his tent meditating on the mode in which he should assail this rock-built city, certain of the patroles of the camp brought a stranger before him.

Who acts: tent, Taric, certain · What happens: seat, meditate, assail, build, bring · To what, where: tent, built city, mode, stranger

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 (tent, Taric, certain), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seated	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 Taric	case
5	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seated	obl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seated	aux:pass
7	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tent	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tent	nmod:poss
10	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seated	obl
11	meditating	meditate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tent	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 mode	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mode	det
14	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meditating	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 assail	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 assail	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 assail	aux
19	assail	assail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mode	acl:relcl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 city	det
21	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 built	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 rock	punct
23	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 city	amod
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 assail	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 certain	punct
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 brought	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 patroles	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 patroles	det
29	patroles	patrole	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 certain	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 camp	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 camp	det
32	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 patroles	nmod
33	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 city	acl:relcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stranger	det
35	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 brought	obj
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 brought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past · passive			Taric's tent	evening	as Taric	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: in tent=Location
2	meditate	gerund	Taric's tent not said here				on the mode	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on mode=Topic
3	assail	should	Taric	this built city	the mode			vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient
4	build	participle					rock compound	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	bring	past	certain of the patroles of the camp	a stranger		before Taric		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme before he=Destination

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 6

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 6