Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 45
One day, however, the young men succeeded in drawing down their father into the plain.
Who acts: young men · What happens: succeed, draw down · To what, where: father, plain
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 (young men), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 succeeded | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 succeeded | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 succeeded | nsubj |
| 9 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 drawing | mark |
| 11 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 succeeded | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 drawing | compound:prt |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | the young men | day | however property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | draw down | gerund | the young men not said here | men's father | into the plain result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent father=Patient into plain=Result |
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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