Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 20

The Moslems planted their scaling ladders, and mounted with their accustomed intrepidity, but were vigorously resisted; nor could all their efforts obtain them a footing upon the battlements.

Who acts: Moslems, efforts · What happens: plant, mount, accustom, resist, obtain · To what, where: scaling ladders, Moslems

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moslems, efforts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moslems	det
2	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ladders	nmod:poss
5	scaling	scaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ladders	compound
6	ladders	ladder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 planted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mounted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mounted	cc
9	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 planted	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 intrepidity	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 intrepidity	nmod:poss
12	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 intrepidity	amod
13	intrepidity	intrepidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mounted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 resisted	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 resisted	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 resisted	aux:pass
17	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	_	18 resisted	advmod
18	resisted	resist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mounted	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 obtain	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 obtain	cc
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 obtain	aux
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 efforts	det:predet
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 efforts	nmod:poss
24	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 obtain	nsubj
25	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 planted	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 obtain	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 footing	det
28	footing	footing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obtain	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 battlements	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 battlements	det
31	battlements	battlement	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 footing	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	plant	past	the Moslems	Moslems's scaling ladders		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient
2	mount	participle	the Moslems not said here		with Moslems's accustomed intrepidity	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with intrepidity=Instrument
3	accustom	participle				tree rules
4	resist	past · passive	the Moslems not said here		vigorously property	tree rules
5	obtain	could	Moslems's efforts	Moslems = moslem	a footing obj	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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 20