Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 18
Seeing themselves thus shut out, the fugitives determined to die like brave soldiers rather than surrender.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: see, shut out, determine, die · To what, where: Arabs, fugitives
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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 shut | advmod |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Seeing | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 shut | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fugitives | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fugitives | det |
| 8 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fugitives | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldiers | amod |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 die | obl |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 17 surrender | cc |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 rather | fixed |
| 17 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soldiers | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Arabs = arab | the fugitives obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut out | participle | Arabs = arab not said here | thus property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | determine | participle | the fugitives not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | like brave soldiers rather surrender | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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