Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 14
After a vehement conflict, the Moslem assailants were repulsed from all points, and driven from the walls.
What happens: repulse, drive · To what, where: Moslem assailants, points, walls
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 conflict | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 conflict | det |
| 3 | vehement | vehement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 conflict | compound |
| 4 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 repulsed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 conflict | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 assailants | det |
| 7 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 assailants | amod |
| 8 | assailants | assailant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 repulsed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 repulsed | aux:pass |
| 10 | repulsed | repulse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 points | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 points | det |
| 13 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 repulsed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 driven | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 driven | cc |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 repulsed | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 walls | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 walls | det |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 driven | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 repulsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repulse | past · passive | the Moslem assailants | all points | after a vehement conflict | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | drive | participle | the walls | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from wall=Trajectory |
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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