Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 96

Some of the Moors were crushed among the ruins; others were flung to a distance, and dashed among the rocks: those who survived were instantly put to the sword.

Who acts: rocks · What happens: crush, fling, dash, survive, put · To what, where: Moors, others, rocks

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 (rocks), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 Moors	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Moors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Moors	det
4	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crushed	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crushed	aux:pass
6	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 ruins	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ruins	det
9	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crushed	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 flung	punct
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 flung	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flung	aux:pass
13	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crushed	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 distance	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 distance	det
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 flung	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dashed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dashed	cc
19	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flung	conj
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 rocks	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rocks	det
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dashed	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 those	punct
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 put	nsubj:pass
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 survived	nsubj
26	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 those	acl:relcl
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 put	aux:pass
28	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	29 put	advmod
29	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rocks	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 sword	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sword	det
32	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crush	past · passive		some Moors		among the ruins	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fling	past · passive		others		to a distance	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to distance=Destination
3	dash	past			the rocks		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among rock=Trajectory
4	survive	past				who nsubj	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put	past · passive	the rocks not said here	the rocks		to the sword; instantly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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 96