Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 94
Muza arrives at Damascus.—His Interview with the Caliph—The Table of Solomon.—A rigorous Sentence 282
Who acts: Muza · What happens: arrive, interview · To what, where: Interview, Damascus
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 Damascus | case |
| 4 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrives | obl |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrives | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Interview | punct |
| 7 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Interview | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrives | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Caliph | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Interview | nmod |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Table | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Table | det |
| 14 | Table | Table | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Interview | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Solomon | case |
| 16 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Table | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Table | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Sentence | punct |
| 19 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Sentence | det |
| 20 | rigorous | rigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Sentence | amod |
| 21 | Sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Interview | conj |
| 22 | 282 | 282 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 Sentence | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | Muza | Muza's Interview with the Caliph and a rigorous Sentence | Damascus | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | interview | Muza | with the Caliph | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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