Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 15
On the following day they made another sally, and fell on a different quarter of the encampment: but the Arabs were on their guard, and met them with superior numbers.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: follow, make, fall, be, meet · To what, where: sally, different quarter, guard, Arabs
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 sally | det |
| 8 | sally | sally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 quarter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 quarter | det |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quarter | amod |
| 15 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 encampment | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 encampment | det |
| 18 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quarter | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 guard | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 guard | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Arabs | det |
| 22 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 guard | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 guard | cop |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 guard | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 guard | nmod:poss |
| 26 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 met | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 met | cc |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 numbers | case |
| 32 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 numbers | amod |
| 33 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 met | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | Arabs = arab | another sally | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sally=Product | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Arabs = arab not said here | a different quarter of the encampment | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on quarter=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the Arabs | Arabs's guard | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | meet | past | Arabs = arab not said here | Arabs = arab | with superior numbers | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme with number=Instrument |
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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