Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 22

The Moslems assailed it on all sides, but were vigorously resisted; many were slain by showers of stones, arrows, and boiling pitch, and many who had mounted with scaling ladders were thrown headlong from the battlements.

Who acts: Moslems, showers · What happens: assail, resist, slay, boil, mount, throw · To what, where: place, sides, many, scaling ladders, battlements

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 (Moslems, showers), 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 Moslems	det
2	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 assailed	nsubj
3	assailed	assail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assailed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assailed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 resisted	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 resisted	cc
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 resisted	aux:pass
11	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	_	12 resisted	advmod
12	resisted	resist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 assailed	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 slain	punct
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 slain	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slain	aux:pass
16	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 assailed	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 showers	case
18	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 slain	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 stones	case
20	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 showers	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 arrows	punct
22	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stones	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pitch	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pitch	cc
25	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 pitch	amod
26	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slain	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mounted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mounted	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mounted	nsubj:pass
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 mounted	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 mounted	aux
32	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 slain	conj
33	with	with	SCONJ	_	37 thrown	mark
34	scaling	scaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ladders	compound
35	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 thrown	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 thrown	aux:pass
37	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 mounted	advcl
38	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 thrown	xcomp
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 battlements	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 battlements	det
41	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 thrown	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assail	past	the Moslems	place	all sides		vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	resist	past · passive	the Moslems not said here			vigorously property	tree rules
3	slay	past · passive	showers of stones and arrows	many		boiling pitch obl	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	boil	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	mount	past · perfect · passive		many		who nsubj	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	throw	past · passive		scaling ladders	the battlements	headlong property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from battlement=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 22