Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 25
The sentinels on the outposts waited until the Christians were close at hand, and then fled in apparent consternation.
Who acts: sentinels, Christians · What happens: wait, be, flee · To what, where: hand, apparent consternation
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 (sentinels, Christians), 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 sentinels | det |
| 2 | sentinels | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 outposts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outposts | det |
| 5 | outposts | outpost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sentinels | nmod |
| 6 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 close | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Christians | det |
| 9 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 close | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | cop |
| 11 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 waited | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fled | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 fled | advmod |
| 17 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waited | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 consternation | case |
| 19 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 consternation | amod |
| 20 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the sentinels on the outposts | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Christians | hand | close property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flee | past | the sentinels on the outposts not said here | apparent consternation | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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