Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 5

There were those who had followed Muza from the fertile regions of Egypt, across the deserts of Barca, and those who had joined his standard from among the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania.

Who acts: those · What happens: be, follow, join · To what, where: Muza, fertile regions, standard, sunburnt tribes

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 (those), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 were	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 followed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	aux
6	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 those	acl:relcl
7	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 regions	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 regions	det
10	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 regions	amod
11	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 followed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Egypt	case
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 regions	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deserts	punct
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 deserts	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deserts	det
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 followed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Barca	case
19	Barca	Barca	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 deserts	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 those	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 those	cc
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 were	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 joined	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 joined	aux
25	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 those	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 standard	nmod:poss
27	standard	standard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 joined	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	32 tribes	case
29	among	among	ADP	_	32 tribes	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tribes	det
31	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tribes	amod
32	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 joined	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Mauritania	case
34	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 tribes	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	those		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past · perfect · passive		Muza	the fertile regions of Egypt	across the deserts of Barca; who nsubj:pass	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme muza=Attribute
3	join	past · perfect		Barca's standard	the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania	who nsubj	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient

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 IX., sentence 5

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 5