Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 55
Immediately after his arrival, a grand assault was made upon the city; and several of the huge battering engines being finished, they were wheeled up, and began to thunder against the walls.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: make, finish, wheel up, begin, arrive · To what, where: arrival, several, engines, thunder
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 (Abdalasis), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 arrival | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 arrival | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrival | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 assault | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 assault | amod |
| 8 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 finished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 finished | cc |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 engines | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 engines | det |
| 19 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 engines | amod |
| 20 | battering | battering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 engines | compound |
| 21 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 finished | obl |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 finished | aux:pass |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wheeled | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wheeled | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wheeled | aux:pass |
| 27 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 finished | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 wheeled | compound:prt |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 began | cc |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 thunder | mark |
| 33 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 began | obj |
| 34 | against | against | ADP | _ | 36 walls | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 walls | det |
| 36 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 began | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Abdalasis's arrival | upon the city; a grand assault nsubj:pass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | finish | gerund · passive | several | of the huge battering engines | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wheel up | past · passive | engines = engine | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | thunder | against the walls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | arrive | Abdalasis | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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