Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 28
The words of the veteran pleased Muza ben Nosier, and he gave his consent; and Taric departed with four galleys and five hundred men, guided by the traitor Julian.
Who acts: words, Taric, delight · What happens: give, depart, guide, word, consent · To what, where: consent, veteran
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Taric, delight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 veteran | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 veteran | det |
| 5 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ben | amod |
| 7 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ben | compound |
| 8 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 veteran | conj |
| 9 | Nosier | Nosier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ben | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 consent | nmod:poss |
| 15 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 departed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 departed | cc |
| 18 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 departed | nsubj |
| 19 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 galleys | case |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 galleys | nummod |
| 22 | galleys | galley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 departed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 men | cc |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hundred | compound |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 men | nummod |
| 26 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 galleys | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 guided | punct |
| 28 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 departed | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 traitor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 traitor | det |
| 31 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 guided | obl |
| 32 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 traitor | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the words of the veteran and pleased Muza ben | delight's consent | delight nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | past | Taric | with four galleys and hundred men | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | guide | participle | Taric not said here | by the traitor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by traitor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | word | the veteran and pleased Muza ben | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | consent | delight | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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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