Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 23

The alcayde, Galo, aided solely by two men, defended a tower and a portion of the wall; killing and wounding, with a cross-bow, more than eighty of the enemy.

Who acts: alcayde · What happens: aid, defend, kill, wound · To what, where: Galo, tower

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 (alcayde), 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 alcayde	det
2	alcayde	alcayde	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 defended	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Galo	punct
4	Galo	Galo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 alcayde	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 aided	punct
6	aided	aid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Galo	acl
7	solely	solely	ADV	_	6 aided	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 men	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 men	nummod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 aided	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 alcayde	punct
12	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tower	det
14	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 defended	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 portion	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 portion	det
17	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tower	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wall	det
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 portion	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 killing	punct
22	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 defended	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wounding	cc
24	wounding	wound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 killing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cross-bow	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 cross-bow	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cross-bow	det
28	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 defended	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eighty	punct
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	32 eighty	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	30 more	fixed
32	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 cross-bow	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 enemy	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 enemy	det
35	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eighty	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 defended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	aid	participle		Galo not said here	by two men; solely property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	defend	past	the alcayde	a tower and a portion of the wall	with a cross-bow eighty of the enemy	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Beneficiary
3	kill	gerund	the alcayde not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	wound	gerund	the alcayde not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 23