Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 6
Hearing of the approach of the invaders, he gathered within the walls all the people of the surrounding country, with their horses and mules, their flocks and herds, and most precious effects.
Who acts: Hearing, invaders · What happens: gather, approach · To what, where: people
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 (Hearing, invaders), 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 | Hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approach | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 approach | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 approach | det |
| 4 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 invaders | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 invaders | det |
| 7 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 approach | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gathered | nsubj |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approach | conj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 walls | det |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 people | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 country | compound |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 horses | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 horses | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mules | cc |
| 26 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 horses | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flocks | punct |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 horses | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 herds | cc |
| 31 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flocks | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 effects | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 effects | cc |
| 34 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 effects | amod |
| 35 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 effects | amod |
| 36 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 approach | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | Hearing | all people of the surrounding country | within the walls; with people's horses and mules and people's flocks and herds | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent people=Patient with horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | approach | the invaders | nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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