Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 18
A murmur of applause passed through the assemblage of Moslem captains.
What happens: pass, murmur · To what, where: murmur, assemblage, applause
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 murmur | det |
| 2 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 applause | case |
| 4 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 murmur | nmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 murmur | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 assemblage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 assemblage | det |
| 8 | assemblage | assemblage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 captains | case |
| 10 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 captains | amod |
| 11 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 assemblage | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 murmur | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a murmur of applause not said here | the assemblage of Moslem captains | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through assemblage=Location | ||||
| 3 | murmur | applause | nom murmur «event 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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