Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 38

Thus the valiant little city of Carmona, after nobly resisting the open assaults of the infidels, fell a victim to the treachery of apostate Christians.

Who acts: valiant little city · What happens: resist, fall, assault · To what, where: open assaults, victim, infidels

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 (valiant little city), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	5 city	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 city	det
3	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 city	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 city	amod
5	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Carmona	case
7	Carmona	Carmona	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 city	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 resisting	punct
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 resisting	mark
10	nobly	nobly	ADV	_	11 resisting	advmod
11	resisting	resist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 city	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 assaults	det
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 assaults	amod
14	assaults	assault	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 resisting	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 infidels	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 infidels	det
17	infidels	infidel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 assaults	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 city	punct
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 victim	det
21	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 treachery	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 treachery	det
24	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 apostate	case
26	apostate	apostate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 treachery	nmod
27	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 apostate	appos
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resist	gerund	the valiant little city of Carmona not said here	the open assaults of the infidels	nobly property	tree rules
2	fall	past	the valiant little city of Carmona	a victim	to the treachery of apostate result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to treachery=Result
3	assault			the infidels		nom assault «act transitive»: of=patient

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 38

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 38