Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 91
The soldiers of the countess saw it also, and made extraordinary efforts to destroy these internal enemies, before they should be attacked from without.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: see, make, destroy, attack · To what, where: countess, extraordinary efforts, internal enemies, soldiers
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 (soldiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 countess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 countess | det |
| 5 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soldiers | nmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 12 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 efforts | amod |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 destroy | mark |
| 15 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 efforts | acl |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 enemies | det |
| 17 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enemies | amod |
| 18 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 destroy | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 attacked | punct |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 attacked | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 attacked | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 attacked | aux:pass |
| 24 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 attacked | obl |
| 26 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 from | fixed |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the soldiers of the countess | countess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | extraordinary efforts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product | |||||
| 3 | destroy | to-infinitive | this internal enemies | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | |||||
| 4 | attack | should · passive | soldiers = soldier | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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