Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 8

In a little while the horsemen of the neighbourhood were seen pricking along the beach, armed with such weapons as they could find; and the Alcayde and his scanty garrison descended from the hill.

Who acts: horsemen · What happens: see, prick, find, descend · To what, where: horsemen, scanty garrison, hill

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 (horsemen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 seen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horsemen	det
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 neighbourhood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neighbourhood	det
9	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 horsemen	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 little	advcl
12	pricking	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 seen	xcomp
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pricking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 armed	punct
17	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beach	amod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 weapons	case
19	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 weapons	amod
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 armed	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 find	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 armed	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 Alcayde	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Alcayde	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Alcayde	det
28	Alcayde	Alcayde	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 little	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 garrison	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 garrison	nmod:poss
31	scanty	scanty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 garrison	amod
32	garrison	garrison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Alcayde	conj
33	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 garrison	acl
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 hill	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hill	det
36	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 descended	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		the horsemen of the neighbourhood			tree rules
2	prick	gerund	the horsemen of the neighbourhood not said here			along the beach	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	could	horsemen = horseman				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	descend	participle		Alcayde's scanty garrison not said here	the hill		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hill=Location

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 8