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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 27

Every window and roof was filled with combatants: the very women and children joined in the desperate fight, throwing down stones and missiles of all kinds, and scalding water, upon the enemy.

What happens: fill, join, throw down, scald · To what, where: window, women, stones, water

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: 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

detnsubj:passccconjaux:passcaseoblpunctdetadvmodoblccconjaclcasedetamodoblpunctadvclcompound:prtobjccconjcasedetnmodpunctccconjobjpunctcasedetoblpunctrootEveryDETwindowNOUNandCCONJroofNOUNwasAUXfilledVERBwithADPcombatantsNOUN:PUNCTtheDETveryADVwomenNOUNandCCONJchildrenNOUNjoinedVERBinADPtheDETdesperateADJfightNOUN,PUNCTthrowingVERBdownADPstonesNOUNandCCONJmissilesNOUNofADPallDETkindsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJscaldingVERBwaterNOUN,PUNCTuponADPtheDETenemyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EveryeveryDETPronType=Tot2 windowdet
2windowwindowNOUNNumber=Sing6 fillednsubj:pass
3andandCCONJ_4 roofcc
4roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing2 windowconj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 filledaux:pass
6filledfillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7withwithADP_8 combatantscase
8combatantscombatantNOUNNumber=Plur6 filledobl
9::PUNCT_12 womenpunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 womendet
11veryveryADV_12 womenadvmod
12womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur6 filledobl
13andandCCONJ_14 childrencc
14childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plur12 womenconj
15joinedjoinVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 womenacl
16ininADP_19 fightcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 fightdet
18desperatedesperateADJDegree=Pos19 fightamod
19fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing15 joinedobl
20,,PUNCT_21 throwingpunct
21throwingthrowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 filledadvcl
22downdownADP_21 throwingcompound:prt
23stonesstoneNOUNNumber=Plur21 throwingobj
24andandCCONJ_25 missilescc
25missilesmissileNOUNNumber=Plur23 stonesconj
26ofofADP_28 kindscase
27allallDETPronType=Tot28 kindsdet
28kindskindNOUNNumber=Plur25 missilesnmod
29,,PUNCT_31 scaldingpunct
30andandCCONJ_31 scaldingcc
31scaldingscaldVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 throwingconj
32waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing31 scaldingobj
33,,PUNCT_36 enemypunct
34uponuponADP_36 enemycase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 enemydet
36enemyenemyNOUNNumber=Sing31 scaldingobl
37..PUNCT_6 filledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fillpast · passiveevery window and roofwith combatants; the women and children oblvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with combatant=Instrument
2joinparticiplethe women and children not said herein the desperate fightvn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fight=Theme
3throw downgerundstones and missiles of all kindsvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4scaldgerundwaterupon the enemyvn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=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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