Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 76
It was about the hour of twilight that Abdalasis approached with his army, but he paused when he saw the walls so numerously garrisoned.
Who acts: hair, Abdalasis · What happens: be, approach, pause, see, garrison · To what, where: hour, walls
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 (hair, Abdalasis), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hour | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hour | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 hour | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 twilight | case |
| 7 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hour | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 approached | obj |
| 9 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | nsubj |
| 10 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hour | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 army | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 army | nmod:poss |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 paused | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 paused | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 paused | nsubj |
| 17 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 approached | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paused | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 walls | det |
| 22 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 garrisoned | advmod |
| 24 | numerously | numerously | ADV | _ | 25 garrisoned | advmod |
| 25 | garrisoned | garrison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hair | about the hour | of twilight | tree rules | |||
| 2 | approach | past | Abdalasis | the hour | with Abdalasis's army | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent that=Theme with army=Instrument | |||
| 3 | pause | past | Abdalasis | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Abdalasis | the walls | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | garrison | participle | numerously 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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