Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 33
At the hour of midnight they stole forth silently, and, assembling together, proceeded to what was called the Gate of Cordova.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: steal, assemble, proceed, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchants), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stole | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hour | nmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stole | nsubj |
| 7 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 silently | advmod |
| 9 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 7 stole | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assembling | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assembling | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assembling | punct |
| 13 | assembling | assemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stole | advcl |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 assembling | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceeded | punct |
| 16 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 assembling | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 proceeded | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gate | det |
| 22 | Gate | Gate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Cordova | case |
| 24 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Gate | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | merchants = merchant | hour | silently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | assemble | gerund | merchants = merchant not said here | together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | participle | what obl | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | call | past · passive | the Gate of Cordova xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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