Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 12
In the dead of the night the garrison assembled, to the number of about three thousand; the most part mounted on horseback.
Who acts: garrison · What happens: assemble, mount · To what, where: night, part, horseback
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 (garrison), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 dead | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dead | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dead | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garrison | det |
| 8 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | nsubj |
| 9 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 night | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 number | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 number | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assembled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thousand | case |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 thousand | advmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 thousand | compound |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 number | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 part | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 part | advmod |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dead | conj |
| 22 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 part | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 horseback | case |
| 24 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mounted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | the garrison | the night not said here | to the number of three thousand | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent night=Theme | |||
| 2 | mount | participle | the part not said here | horseback | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horseback=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/29/12/