Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 13
Suddenly sallying from one of the gates, they rushed in a compact body upon the camp of the Saracens, which was negligently guarded; for the Moslems expected no such act of desperation.
Who acts: gates, Moslems, desperation · What happens: sally, rush, guard, expect, act · To what, where: compact body, Saracens, such act
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 (gates, Moslems, desperation), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 2 sallying | advmod |
| 2 | sallying | sally | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rushed | advcl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 sallying | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gates | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gates | det |
| 7 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sallying | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 13 | compact | compact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 body | amod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 camp | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 camp | det |
| 17 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Saracens | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Saracens | det |
| 20 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 camp | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 guarded | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 guarded | aux:pass |
| 24 | negligently | negligently | ADV | _ | 25 guarded | advmod |
| 25 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Saracens | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 expected | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Moslems | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Moslems | det |
| 29 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 expected | nsubj |
| 30 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushed | conj |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 act | det |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 act | amod |
| 33 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 expected | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 desperation | case |
| 35 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 act | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sally | gerund | gates = gate not said here | from one of the gates; suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | gates = gate | a compact body upon the camp of the Saracens | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | guard | past · passive | the Saracens | negligently property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | expect | past | the Moslems | no such act of desperation | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | ||||
| 5 | act | desperation | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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