Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 4

In fact, when he arrived at Ceuta he found his post in imminent danger from the all-conquering Moslems.

Who acts: course · What happens: arrive, find, conquer · To what, where: Ceuta, post, fact

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 (course), 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	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 arrived	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 arrived	nsubj
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 found	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Ceuta	case
8	Ceuta	Ceuta	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 post	nmod:poss
12	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 danger	case
14	imminent	imminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 danger	amod
15	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	21 Moslems	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Moslems	det
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 conquering	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
20	conquering	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 Moslems	amod
21	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 danger	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	course		Ceuta		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	course	course's post	fact	in imminent danger from the conquering Moslems	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Topic
3	conquer	gerund					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 4