Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 46
Abdalasis immediately seized on the opportunity, and threw himself between the Goths and their mountain fastnesses.
What happens: seize, throw · To what, where: Abdalasis, opportunity
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: 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 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 opportunity | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Goths | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Goths | det |
| 13 | Goths | Goth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fastnesses | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fastnesses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastnesses | compound |
| 17 | fastnesses | fastness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Goths | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | participle · passive | Abdalasis | the opportunity | immediately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Abdalasis | between the Goths and Goths's mountain fastnesses | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between goth=Destination |
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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