Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 22
The inhabitants attempted in vain from the barbican to extinguish the flames.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: attempt, extinguish · To what, where: vain, flames
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 (inhabitants), 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 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attempted | nsubj |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attempted | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 barbican | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 barbican | det |
| 8 | barbican | barbican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attempted | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 extinguish | mark |
| 10 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flames | det |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 extinguish | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | the inhabitants | vain | from the barbican | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | extinguish | to-infinitive | the inhabitants not said here | the flames | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flame=Patient |
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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