Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 41
The siege was now pressed with great vigour, and repeated assaults were made, but in vain.
What happens: press, repeat, make · To what, where: siege, repeated assaults
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: 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 siege | det |
| 2 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pressed | advmod |
| 5 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 vigour | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vigour | amod |
| 8 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 11 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 assaults | amod |
| 12 | assaults | assault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pressed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vain | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 vain | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vain | case |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | past · passive | the siege | now | with great vigour | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | repeated assaults | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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