Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 49
Let us make a rapid retreat to Orihuela, and defend ourselves from behind its walls.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, make, defend · To what, where: us, rapid retreat, ourselves
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 (you, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 retreat | det |
| 5 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 retreat | amod |
| 6 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Orihuela | case |
| 8 | Orihuela | Orihuela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 retreat | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 defend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 defend | cc |
| 11 | defend | defend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 defend | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 walls | case |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 walls | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 walls | nmod:poss |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 defend | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | a rapid retreat | to Orihuela | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset retreat=Product | |||
| 3 | defend | infinitive | you not said here | ourselves | from retreat's walls | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ourselves=Beneficiary from wall=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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