Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 18
The outposts were feebly guarded; fires were lighted in various places, as if preparing for feasting; bursts of music and shouts of revelry resounded from different quarters, and the whole camp seemed to be rioting in careless security on the plunder of the land.
Who acts: whole camp · What happens: guard, light, prepare, shout, resound, seem · To what, where: outposts, fires, various places, revelry, different quarters, careless security
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 (whole camp), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 outposts | det |
| 2 | outposts | outpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 5 guarded | advmod |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 lighted | punct |
| 7 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lighted | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lighted | aux:pass |
| 9 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guarded | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 places | case |
| 11 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 places | amod |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lighted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 preparing | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 preparing | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 preparing | mark |
| 16 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lighted | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 feasting | case |
| 18 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preparing | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bursts | punct |
| 20 | bursts | burst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 guarded | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 music | case |
| 22 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bursts | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shouts | cc |
| 24 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 revelry | case |
| 26 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shouts | obl |
| 27 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 revelry | acl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 quarters | case |
| 29 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 quarters | amod |
| 30 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 resounded | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seemed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 seemed | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 camp | det |
| 34 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 camp | amod |
| 35 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seemed | nsubj |
| 36 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 rioting | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 rioting | aux |
| 39 | rioting | riot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 seemed | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 security | case |
| 41 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 security | amod |
| 42 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rioting | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 plunder | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 plunder | det |
| 45 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rioting | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 land | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 land | det |
| 48 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 plunder | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | past · passive | the outposts | bursts of music obl; feebly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | light | past · passive | fires | various places | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | prepare | gerund | for feasting | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for feasting=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | of revelry | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | resound | participle | revelry not said here | different quarters | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | the whole camp | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | riot | to-infinitive · progressive | the whole camp not said here | careless security | on the plunder of the land | tree rules | |||
| 8 | burst | music | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | plunder | the land | nom plunder «possession 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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