Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 94
To these they set fire, and withdrew to a distance, keeping up a constant shower of missiles to prevent the Moors from sallying forth to extinguish the flames.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: set, withdraw, keep up, prevent, sally, extinguish · To what, where: fire, constant shower, Moors, flames
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 set | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 withdrew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 withdrew | cc |
| 8 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 withdrew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keeping | punct |
| 13 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 withdrew | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 keeping | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shower | det |
| 16 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shower | amod |
| 17 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keeping | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 missiles | case |
| 19 | missiles | missile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shower | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prevent | mark |
| 21 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 keeping | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Moors | det |
| 23 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 prevent | obj |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 25 sallying | mark |
| 25 | sallying | sally | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 prevent | advcl |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 sallying | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 extinguish | mark |
| 28 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sallying | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 flames | det |
| 30 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 extinguish | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | soldiers = soldier | fire | to these | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result | |||
| 2 | withdraw | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | to a distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | keep up | gerund | soldiers = soldier not said here | a constant shower of missiles | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prevent | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | the Moors | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer moor=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sally | gerund | soldiers = soldier not said here | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | extinguish | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | the flames | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flame=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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