Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 28

An army seemed to spring up from the earth; squadrons of horse came thundering on them in front, while the quarry poured forth legions of armed warriors in their rear.

Who acts: army, squadrons · What happens: seem, spring up, come, thunder, pour · To what, where: earth, quarry legions, front, quarry

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 (army, squadrons), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spring	mark
5	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 spring	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earth	det
9	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spring	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 horse	case
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squadrons	nmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	conj
15	thundering	thunder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 came	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thundering	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thundering	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 legions	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 legions	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 quarry	det
23	quarry	quarry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 legions	compound
24	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 quarry	acl
25	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 poured	advmod
26	legions	legion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 warriors	case
28	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 warriors	amod
29	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 legions	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 rear	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 rear	nmod:poss
32	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warriors	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	a army				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	spring up	to-infinitive	a army not said here		the earth		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	squadrons of horse	quarry legions of armed warriors in squadrons's rear			tree rules
4	thunder	gerund	squadrons of horse not said here		front	on squadrons = squadron	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location
5	pour	participle		the quarry not said here		forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 28