Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 15
[45] Certain of the Christian inhabitants threw open the gates and admitted them.
Who acts: Christian inhabitants · What happens: throw, open, admit · To what, where: 45, gates
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian inhabitants), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 45 | punct |
| 2 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 threw | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 45 | punct |
| 4 | Certain | Certain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 45 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 inhabitants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inhabitants | det |
| 7 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inhabitants | amod |
| 8 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 threw | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gates | det |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 open | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 admitted | cc |
| 14 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 threw | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 admitted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Christian inhabitants | 45 Certain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | the Christian inhabitants not said here | the gates | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past | the Christian inhabitants not said here | gates = gate | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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