Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 5
For some days they withstood the assaults of the enemy, and defended their walls with great courage.
Who acts: spies · What happens: withstand, defend, assault · To what, where: assaults, walls, enemy
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 withstood | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 withstood | nsubj |
| 5 | withstood | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 assaults | det |
| 7 | assaults | assault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 withstood | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 enemy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enemy | det |
| 10 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assaults | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 defended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 defended | cc |
| 13 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withstood | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 walls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 defended | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 courage | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 courage | amod |
| 18 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 defended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 withstood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withstand | past | spies = spy | the assaults of the enemy | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | defend | past | spies = spy not said here | spies's walls | with great courage | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | assault | the enemy | 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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