Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 14

Seeing that a place so populous and so strongly fortified would be likely to maintain a long and formidable resistance, he sent messengers to Africa to his son Abdalasis, to collect all the forces that could be spared from the garrisons of Mauritania, and to hasten and reinforce him.

Who acts: Allah, populous · What happens: see, fortify, be, maintain, send, collect · To what, where: long resistance, messengers, son, forces, garrisons, Allah

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Allah, populous), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sent	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 place	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	advcl
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 likely	mark
6	populous	populace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 likely	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fortified	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 fortified	advmod
9	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	10 fortified	advmod
10	fortified	fortify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 populous	conj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 likely	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 likely	cop
13	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Seeing	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 maintain	mark
15	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 likely	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 resistance	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 resistance	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 formidable	cc
19	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 long	conj
20	resistance	resistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maintain	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sent	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Africa	case
26	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 messengers	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 son	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
30	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 son	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 collect	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 collect	mark
33	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	advcl
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 forces	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 forces	det
36	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 collect	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 spared	nsubj:pass
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 spared	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 spared	aux:pass
40	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 forces	acl:relcl
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 garrisons	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 garrisons	det
43	garrisons	garrison	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 spared	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 Mauritania	case
45	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 garrisons	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hasten	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 hasten	cc
48	to	to	PART	_	49 hasten	mark
49	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 collect	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 reinforce	cc
51	reinforce	reinforce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 hasten	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 reinforce	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	Allah not said here				a place advcl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fortify	participle	populous not said here				strongly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	would	populous				likely property	tree rules
4	maintain	to-infinitive	populous not said here	a long resistance				vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent resistance=Theme
5	send	past	Allah	messengers	Allah's son		to Africa	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to son=Destination
6	collect	to-infinitive	Allah not said here	all forces				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme
7	spare	could · passive		all forces		the garrisons of Mauritania		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
8	hasten	to-infinitive	Allah not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	reinforce	infinitive	Allah not said here	Allah				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 14