Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 92
They made repeated attempts to storm the tower, but were as often repulsed with severe loss.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: make, repeat, storm, repulse · To what, where: repeated attempts, tower
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 attempts | amod |
| 4 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 storm | mark |
| 6 | storm | storm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 storm | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 repulsed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 repulsed | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 repulsed | aux |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 repulsed | advmod |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 repulsed | advmod |
| 14 | repulsed | repulse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 loss | case |
| 16 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 loss | amod |
| 17 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 repulsed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | soldiers = soldier | repeated attempts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | storm | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | the tower | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repulse | past · passive | soldiers = soldier not said here | with severe loss; often property | 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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