Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 17
The guards within feared to open the gate, lest with their friends they should admit a torrent of enemies.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: fear, open, admit · To what, where: guards, gate, torrent
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 feared | mark |
| 4 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feared | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 10 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 admit | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 admit | aux |
| 16 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 friends | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 torrent | det |
| 18 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admit | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 enemies | case |
| 20 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 torrent | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | participle · passive | the guards | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | the gate | lest Arabs's friends | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | should | Arabs = arab | a torrent of enemies | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torrent=Theme |
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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