Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 15

Don Julian sallied forth, and harassed them in their retreat; and so severe was the carnage, that the veteran Musa was fain to break up his camp, and retire confounded from the siege.

Who acts: Don, veteran · What happens: sally, harass, be, break up, retire, confound · To what, where: assailants, retreat, severe carnage, camp, siege

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: who acts (Don, veteran), 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	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sallied	nsubj
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Don	flat
3	sallied	sally	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 sallied	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 harassed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 harassed	cc
7	harassed	harass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sallied	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 harassed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 retreat	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 retreat	nmod:poss
11	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harassed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 severe	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 severe	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 severe	advmod
15	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 carnage	amod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carnage	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 carnage	det
18	carnage	carnage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sallied	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fain	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 fain	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 veteran	det
22	veteran	veteran	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fain	nsubj
23	Musa	Musa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 veteran	appos
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fain	cop
25	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sallied	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 break	mark
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fain	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 break	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 camp	nmod:poss
30	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 break	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 retire	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 retire	cc
33	retire	retire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 break	conj
34	confounded	confound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 retire	xcomp
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 siege	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 siege	det
37	siege	siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 confounded	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sallied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sally	past	Don			forth property	tree rules
2	harass	past	Don not said here	assailants = assailant	assailants's retreat		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	is a	past		the severe carnage			tree rules
4	is	past	the veteran			fain property	tree rules
5	break up	to-infinitive	the veteran not said here	Don's camp			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient
6	retire	infinitive	the veteran not said here				tree rules
7	confound	participle	the veteran not said here		the siege		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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, Chapter VIII., sentence 15

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 15