Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 18
The whole was put under the command of the veteran, Taric el Tuerto, or the one-eyed, in whom Muza reposed implicit confidence, as in a second self.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: put, repose, command · To what, where: whole, command, implicit confidence, veteran · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 command | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 command | det |
| 7 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 veteran | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 veteran | det |
| 10 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 command | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 el | punct |
| 12 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 el | compound |
| 13 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 veteran | appos |
| 14 | Tuerto | Tuerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 el | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyed | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyed | det |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 eyed | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 20 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 put | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 reposed | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 whom | case |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 reposed | obl |
| 24 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 reposed | nsubj |
| 25 | reposed | repose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 eyed | conj |
| 26 | implicit | implicit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 confidence | amod |
| 27 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reposed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 self | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 self | case |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 self | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 self | det |
| 32 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 self | amod |
| 33 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reposed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the whole | the command of the veteran | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under command=Destination | ||||
| 2 | repose | past | Muza | implicit confidence | as a second self; whom obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confidence=Theme | |||
| 3 | command | the veteran | nom command «communication transitive»: of=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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