Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 4
A considerable force, however, still remained within the place, and what they wanted in numbers they made up in resolution.
Who acts: spies · What happens: remain, want, make up · To what, where: considerable force, numbers, resolution
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 (spies), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 force | det |
| 2 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 force | amod |
| 3 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 force | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 remained | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 remained | advmod |
| 8 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remained | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wanted | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 wanted | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 remained | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 numbers | case |
| 18 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wanted | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 numbers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 made | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 resolution | case |
| 23 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle · passive | a considerable force | still | within the place; however property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 2 | want | past | spies = spy | numbers | what obj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||
| 3 | make up | past | spies = spy | numbers not said here | resolution | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme number=Pivot |
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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