Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 36
The Arabs scoured the streets; a horrible massacre was commenced, in which none were spared but such of the females as were young and beautiful, and fitted to grace the harems of the conquerors.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: scour, commence, spare, be, fit, grace · To what, where: streets, horrible massacre, none, harems
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Arabs | det |
| 2 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 scoured | nsubj |
| 3 | scoured | scour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 streets | det |
| 5 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scoured | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 commenced | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 massacre | det |
| 8 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 massacre | amod |
| 9 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 commenced | aux:pass |
| 11 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scoured | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spared | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 spared | obl |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spared | aux:pass |
| 17 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 commenced | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 young | cc |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 young | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 females | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 females | det |
| 22 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 such | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 such | fixed |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 young | cop |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spared | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beautiful | cc |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 young | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fitted | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fitted | cc |
| 30 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scoured | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 grace | mark |
| 32 | grace | grace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fitted | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 harems | det |
| 34 | harems | harem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 grace | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 conquerors | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 conquerors | det |
| 37 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 harems | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scour | past | the Arabs | the streets | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent street=Source | ||||
| 2 | commence | past · passive | a horrible massacre | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | spare | past · passive | none | which obl | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | past | young property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | fit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | grace | to-infinitive | the harems of the conquerors | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harem=Destination |
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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