🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 15

Several of the Moors surrounded her with drawn swords, threatening death to any that approached; others sprang from the bark, and, throwing themselves on their knees before the Alcayde, implored him, by his honour and courtesy as a knight, to protect a royal virgin from injury and insult.

Who acts: Moors, others, throwing, Alcayde · What happens: surround, draw, threaten, approach, spring, throw · To what, where: beauty, death, bark, others, knees, Alcayde

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moors, others, throwing, Alcayde), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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