Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 102
Alahor immediately ordered the city to be assailed on every side, and at length carried it by storm.
Who acts: Alahor · What happens: order, assail, carry · To what, where: city, side, length
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alahor), 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 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 assailed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 assailed | aux:pass |
| 8 | assailed | assail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 city | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assailed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 storm | case |
| 19 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Alahor | the city | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||
| 2 | assail | to-infinitive · passive | Alahor not said here | the city not said here | every side | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP» | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Alahor not said here | length | length | by storm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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