Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 88

Thirty-five of the Moors were in the great square, unsuspicious of any danger, when they were severally singled out by their executioners, and, at a concerted signal, killed on the spot.

Who acts: executioners · What happens: be, single out, kill · To what, where: five great square, squares, concerted signal, spot

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 (executioners), 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	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 five	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 five	punct
3	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 square	nummod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Moors	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Moors	det
6	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 square	obl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 square	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 square	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 square	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 square	amod
11	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unsuspicious	punct
13	unsuspicious	unsuspicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 square	appos
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 danger	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 danger	det
16	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unsuspicious	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 singled	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 singled	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 singled	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singled	aux:pass
21	severally	severally	ADV	_	22 singled	advmod
22	singled	single	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 unsuspicious	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 singled	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 executioners	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 executioners	nmod:poss
26	executioners	executioner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 singled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 signal	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 signal	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 signal	punct
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 signal	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 signal	det
32	concerted	concerted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 signal	amod
33	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 square	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 killed	punct
35	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 signal	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 spot	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 spot	det
38	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 killed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 square	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			the five great square and a concerted signal	of the Moors; a concerted signal conj	tree rules
2	single out	past · passive	squares's executioners	squares = square		severally property	tree rules
3	kill	participle		a concerted signal not said here	the spot		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 88