Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 21
While they were thus assailing the walls, Count Julian ordered a heap of combustibles to be placed against one of the gates, and set on fire.
Who acts: efforts, you, Julian · What happens: assail, count, order, place, set · To what, where: walls, heap, fire
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 (efforts, you, Julian), 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 | _ | 5 assailing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 assailing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 assailing | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 assailing | advmod |
| 5 | assailing | assail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 Count | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 assailing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 assailing | punct |
| 9 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Count | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heap | det |
| 13 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 combustibles | case |
| 15 | combustibles | combustible | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heap | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 placed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 placed | aux:pass |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 combustibles | acl |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 placed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gates | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gates | det |
| 23 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 set | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 set | cc |
| 26 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 Count | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assail | past · progressive | efforts = effort | the walls | thus property | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Patient | |||
| 2 | count | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | order | past | Julian | a heap of combustibles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Theme | ||||
| 4 | place | to-infinitive · passive | Julian not said here | against one of the gates | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: against one=Destination | ||||
| 5 | set | infinitive | you not said here | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=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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