Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 68
So rapid were his movements that the count had barely time to escape with fifteen cavaliers, with whom he took refuge in the strong castle of Marcuello, among the mountains of Arragon.
Who acts: count · What happens: be, have, escape, take · To what, where: rapid movements, refuge, strong castle
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 (count), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 rapid | advmod |
| 2 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 movements | amod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 movements | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 movements | nmod:poss |
| 5 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 count | det |
| 8 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 movements | advcl |
| 10 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 11 time | advmod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 escape | mark |
| 13 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cavaliers | case |
| 15 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 cavaliers | nummod |
| 16 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 escape | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whom | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 castle | det |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 castle | amod |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Marcuello | case |
| 28 | Marcuello | Marcuello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 castle | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mountains | punct |
| 30 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 mountains | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mountains | det |
| 32 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Arragon | case |
| 34 | Arragon | Arragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 mountains | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 movements | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Carthagena's rapid movements | Carthagena nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the count | time | Carthagena's rapid movements conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | the count not said here | with fifteen cavaliers | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Count | refuge | the strong castle of Marcuello | the mountains of Arragon conj | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in castle=Location |
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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