Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 10

Let us cut our way through the infidel force and gain some secure fortress, from whence we may return with augmented numbers for the rescue of the city.”

Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, cut, gain, return, augment, rescue · To what, where: us, way, infidel force, secure fortress, city

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 force	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 force	det
8	infidel	infidel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 force	compound
9	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gain	cc
11	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fortress	det
13	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fortress	amod
14	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gain	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 return	punct
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	20 return	mark
17	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	20 return	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 return	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 return	aux
20	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 numbers	case
22	augmented	augment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 numbers	amod
23	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 return	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 rescue	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rescue	det
26	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 city	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 city	det
29	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rescue	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	cut	infinitive	us not said here	our way	the infidel force		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
3	gain	present	us not said here	some secure fortress			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme
4	return	may	we			with augmented numbers; for the rescue of the city; whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	augment	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	rescue			the city			nom rescue «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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 10