Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 29
They confined not their slaughter to the soldiery in the alcazar, but roamed through every street, confounding the innocent with the guilty in one bloody massacre, and it was with the utmost difficulty that Abdalasis could at length succeed in staying their sanguinary career.
Who acts: gates, slaughter, Abdalasis · What happens: not confine, roam, confound, be, succeed, stay · To what, where: slaughter, soldiery, street, innocent, length, sanguinary career
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 (gates, slaughter, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 confined | nsubj |
| 2 | confined | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 confined | advmod |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 slaughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confined | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 soldiery | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiery | det |
| 8 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confined | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 alcazar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 alcazar | det |
| 11 | alcazar | alcazar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiery | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roamed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 roamed | cc |
| 14 | roamed | roam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 confined | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roamed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 confounding | punct |
| 19 | confounding | confound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 roamed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 innocent | det |
| 21 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 confounding | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 guilty | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guilty | det |
| 24 | guilty | guilty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 confounding | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 massacre | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 massacre | nummod |
| 27 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 massacre | amod |
| 28 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 guilty | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 difficulty | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 difficulty | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 difficulty | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 difficulty | cop |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 difficulty | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 difficulty | det |
| 35 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 difficulty | amod |
| 36 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confined | parataxis |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 succeed | mark |
| 38 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 succeed | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 succeed | aux |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 length | case |
| 41 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 succeed | obl |
| 42 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 difficulty | advcl |
| 43 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 44 staying | mark |
| 44 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 succeed | advcl |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 career | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sanguinary | sanguinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 career | amod |
| 47 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 staying | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confine | past | gates = gate | gates's slaughter | the soldiery in the alcazar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slaughter=Theme to soldiery=Destination | |||
| 2 | roam | participle | gates = gate not said here | every street | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | confound | gerund | gates = gate not said here | the innocent | with the guilty in one bloody massacre | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus innocent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | is | past | slaughter | with the utmost difficulty | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | succeed | could | Abdalasis | length | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | stay | gerund | Abdalasis not said here | gates's sanguinary career | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme career=Location | ||||
| 7 | slaughter | gates = gate | nom slaughter «act transitive»: 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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