🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 40

In this way be checked and harassed the Moslem army in all its movements; showering down missiles upon it from overhanging precipices, and waylaying it in narrow and rugged defiles, where a few raw troops could make stand against a host.

Who acts: few raw troops, army · What happens: check, harass, shower down, overhang, waylay, make · To what, where: way, Moslem army, movements, missiles, army, precipices

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 (few raw troops, army), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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