Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 65
While time was lost in these disputes, the Moslem army kept advancing, until retreat was no longer practicable.
Who acts: Moslem army, retreat · What happens: lose, keep, advance, be · To what, where: time, disputes
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 (Moslem army, retreat), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 lost | mark |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kept | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 disputes | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 disputes | det |
| 7 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 army | det |
| 10 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 army | amod |
| 11 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 practicable | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 practicable | mark |
| 16 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 practicable | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 practicable | cop |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 practicable | advmod |
| 20 | practicable | practicable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 advancing | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | time | this disputes | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the Moslem army | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | advance | gerund | the Moslem army not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | retreat | long, practicable property | tree rules |
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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