Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 19
As the night advanced, the fires were gradually extinguished, and silence ensued, as if the soldiery had sunk into deep sleep after the carousal.
Who acts: fires, silence · What happens: be, ensue, sink · To what, where: soldiery, deep sleep
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 (fires, silence), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 extinguished | obl |
| 4 | advanced | advanced | ADV | _ | 3 night | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fires | det |
| 7 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 extinguished | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 extinguished | cop |
| 9 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 10 extinguished | advmod |
| 10 | extinguished | extinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ensued | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ensued | cc |
| 13 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ensued | nsubj |
| 14 | ensued | ensue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 extinguished | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ensued | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sunk | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 sunk | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldiery | det |
| 19 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sunk | aux |
| 21 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ensued | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sleep | amod |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunk | obl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 27 carousal | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 carousal | det |
| 27 | carousal | carousal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sunk | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 extinguished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fires | night | extinguished, gradually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ensue | past | silence | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink | past · perfect · passive | the soldiery | deep sleep | after the carousal | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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