Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 16
After fighting fiercely for a time, they were routed, and fled full speed for the city, with the Arabs hard upon their traces.
What happens: fight, rout, flee · To what, where: Arabs, full speed
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: 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 fighting | mark |
| 2 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 routed | advcl |
| 3 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 fighting | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fighting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fighting | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 routed | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 routed | aux:pass |
| 10 | routed | rout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fled | cc |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 routed | conj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 speed | amod |
| 15 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Arabs | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Arabs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Arabs | det |
| 22 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 fled | obl |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 Arabs | advmod |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 traces | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 traces | nmod:poss |
| 26 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hard | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 routed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | time | fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rout | past · passive | Arabs = arab | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | full speed | for the city; with the Arabs | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme speed=Initial_Location |
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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