Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 117
In the mean time the walls of the citadel were sapped, the troops of the emir poured in at the breach, and a great part of the garrison was put to the sword.
Who acts: mean time, troops · What happens: sap, pour, put · To what, where: walls, breach, great part
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 (mean time, troops), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poured | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 walls | det |
| 6 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sapped | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 citadel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 citadel | det |
| 9 | citadel | citadel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walls | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sapped | aux:pass |
| 11 | sapped | sap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 troops | det |
| 14 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 poured | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 emir | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 emir | det |
| 17 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 troops | nmod |
| 18 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 breach | case |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 breach | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 breach | det |
| 22 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poured | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 part | amod |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 garrison | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 garrison | det |
| 30 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | aux:pass |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 poured | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 sword | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sword | det |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sap | past · passive | the mean time not said here | the walls of the citadel | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | pour | participle | the troops of the emir | the breach | time | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||
| 3 | put | past · passive | a great part of the garrison | to the sword | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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