Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 88
Muza arrives at Toledo.—Interview between him and Taric 259
Who acts: Muza · What happens: arrive, interview · To what, where: Toledo
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza), 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 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrives | nsubj |
| 2 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Toledo | case |
| 4 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrives | obl |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrives | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Interview | punct |
| 7 | Interview | interview | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 arrives | conj |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Interview | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Taric | cc |
| 11 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 him | conj |
| 12 | 259 | 259 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Taric | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | Muza | Toledo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | interview speech: other | infinitive | Muza not said here | between Muza | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «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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