Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 6
Their want of warlike munitions, however, and the superior force and skill of the besieging army, left them no hope of being able to hold out long.
Who acts: want, hope, spies · What happens: besiege, leave, be, hold out, want · To what, where: spies, warlike munitions
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 (want, hope, 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 want | nmod:poss |
| 2 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 munitions | case |
| 4 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 munitions | amod |
| 5 | munitions | munition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 want | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 left | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 force | det |
| 11 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 force | amod |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 skill | cc |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 force | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 army | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 army | det |
| 17 | besieging | besiege | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 army | amod |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skill | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 force | punct |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 hope | det |
| 23 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 able | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hope | acl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hold | mark |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hold | compound:prt |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 hold | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besiege | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | leave | past | spies's want of warlike munitions | spies = spy | the superior force and skill of the besieging army nsubj; no hope obj; however property | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme hope=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | no hope not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold out | to-infinitive | no hope not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | spies = spy | warlike munitions | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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