Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 1
Let us leave for a season the bold Taric in his triumphant progress from city to city, while we turn our eyes to Muza ben Nozier, the renowned emir of Almagreb, and the commander-in-chief of the Moslem forces of the west.
Who acts: you, us, we, Taric · What happens: let, leave, turn, progress · To what, where: us, triumphant progress, eyes, Muza ben, city
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, Taric), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 season | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 season | det |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bold | det |
| 8 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 season | conj |
| 9 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bold | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 progress | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 progress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 progress | amod |
| 13 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 progress | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turn | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 turn | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 turn | nsubj |
| 21 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turn | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ben | case |
| 25 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ben | compound |
| 26 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turn | obl |
| 27 | Nozier | Nozier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ben | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 emir | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 emir | det |
| 30 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 emir | amod |
| 31 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Nozier | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Almagreb | case |
| 33 | Almagreb | Almagreb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 emir | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 chief | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 chief | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 commander | det |
| 37 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 chief | nsubj |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 chief | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 chief | case |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 in | punct |
| 41 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turn | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 forces | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forces | det |
| 44 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 forces | amod |
| 45 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 chief | nmod |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 west | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 west | det |
| 48 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 forces | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | us not said here | season | in Taric's triumphant progress from city to city result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in progress=Result | |||
| 3 | turn | present | we | our eyes | Muza ben | in chief the commander of the Moslem forces of the west | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient to ben=Recipient in chief=Topic | ||
| 4 | progress | Taric | city to city | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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