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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 42

A few guards, who attended at the palace, would have made defence; but they were overawed by the sight of the written mandate of the caliph.

Who acts: few guards, sight · What happens: attend, make, overawe, write, sight, mandate · To what, where: few guards, orisons, written mandate, caliph

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few guards, sight), 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

detamodnsubj:passpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctauxauxxcomppunctccnsubjaux:passconjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootADETfewADJguardsNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONattendedVERBatADPtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTwouldAUXhaveAUXmadeVERBdefenceNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJtheyPRONwereAUXoverawedVERBbyADPtheDETsightNOUNofADPtheDETwrittenVERBmandateNOUNofADPtheDETcaliphNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 guardsdet
2fewfewADJDegree=Pos3 guardsamod
3guardsguardNOUNNumber=Plur13 madensubj:pass
4,,PUNCT_6 attendedpunct
5whowhoPRONPronType=Rel6 attendednsubj
6attendedattendVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 guardsacl:relcl
7atatADP_9 palacecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 palacedet
9palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 attendedobl
10,,PUNCT_3 guardspunct
11wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin13 madeaux
12havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf13 madeaux
13mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
14defencedefenceNOUNNumber=Sing13 madexcomp
15;;PUNCT_13 madepunct
16butbutCCONJ_19 overawedcc
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 overawednsubj
18werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 overawedaux:pass
19overawedoveraweVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 madeconj
20bybyADP_22 sightcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 sightdet
22sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing19 overawedobl
23ofofADP_26 mandatecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 mandatedet
25writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 mandateamod
26mandatemandateNOUNNumber=Sing22 sightnmod
27ofofADP_29 caliphcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 caliphdet
29caliphcaliphNOUNNumber=Sing26 mandatenmod
30..PUNCT_13 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1attendpasta few guardsat the palacevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at palace=Theme
2makewould · perfect · passivea few guardsdefence xcompvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3overawepast · passivethe sight of the written mandate of the caliphorisons = orisonvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4writeparticiplevn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5sightthe written mandate of the caliphnom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6mandatethe caliphnom mandate «communication transitive»: of=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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