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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 34

Here setting suddenly upon the unsuspecting guards, they put them to the edge of the sword, and, throwing open the gates, admitted a great body of the Arabs.

Who acts: merchants · What happens: set, unsuspect, put, throw, open, admit · To what, where: unsuspecting guards, supplies, gates, great body

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

advmodadvcladvmodcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccpunctadvclxcompdetobjpunctconjdetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctrootHereADVsettingVERBsuddenlyADVuponADPtheDETunsuspectingVERBguardsNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONputVERBthemPRONtoADPtheDETedgeNOUNofADPtheDETswordNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTthrowingVERBopenVERBtheDETgatesNOUN,PUNCTadmittedVERBaDETgreatADJbodyNOUNofADPtheDETArabsPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerehereADVPronType=Dem2 settingadvmod
2settingsetVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 putadvcl
3suddenlysuddenlyADV_2 settingadvmod
4uponuponADP_7 guardscase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 guardsdet
6unsuspectingunsuspectVERBVerbForm=Ger7 guardsamod
7guardsguardNOUNNumber=Plur2 settingobl
8,,PUNCT_2 settingpunct
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 putnsubj
10putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 putobj
12totoADP_14 edgecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 edgedet
14edgeedgeNOUNNumber=Sing10 putobl
15ofofADP_17 swordcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 sworddet
17swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing14 edgenmod
18,,PUNCT_21 throwingpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 throwingcc
20,,PUNCT_21 throwingpunct
21throwingthrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 putadvcl
22openopenVERBVerbForm=Inf21 throwingxcomp
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 gatesdet
24gatesgateNOUNNumber=Plur22 openobj
25,,PUNCT_26 admittedpunct
26admittedadmitVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 putconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 bodydet
28greatgreatADJDegree=Pos29 bodyamod
29bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing26 admittedobj
30ofofADP_32 Arabscase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Arabsdet
32ArabsArabPROPNNumber=Plur29 bodynmod
33..PUNCT_10 putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1setgerundmerchants = merchant not said herethe unsuspecting guards; heresuddenly propertyvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon guard=Destination
2unsuspectgerundtree rules
3putpastmerchants = merchantsuppliesto the edge of the swordvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4throwgerundmerchants = merchant not said heretree rules
5openinfinitivemerchants = merchant not said herethe gatesvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme
6admit speech: otherpastmerchants = merchant not said herea great body of the Arabsvn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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