Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 41
Disregarding the letter of Muza, therefore, he prepared to pursue his victories.
Who acts: letter · What happens: disregard, prepare, pursue, letter · To what, where: letter, victories, Muza
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | Disregarding | disregard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 prepared | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Disregarding | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Muza | case |
| 5 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 therefore | punct |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Disregarding | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Disregarding | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 prepared | nsubj |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pursue | mark |
| 12 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 victories | nmod:poss |
| 14 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pursue | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disregard | gerund | letter not said here | the letter of Muza | therefore property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | |||
| 2 | prepare | past | letter | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pursue not said to happen | to-infinitive | letter not said here | letter's victories | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme | ||||
| 4 | letter | Muza | nom letter «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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