Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 10
His first consideration, however, was to secure to himself a share in the actual conquest of the land, before it should be entirely subjugated.
Who acts: first consideration, Muza · What happens: be, subjugate, consider · To what, where: Muza, actual conquest, consideration
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 (first consideration, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 consideration | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 consideration | amod |
| 3 | consideration | consideration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secure | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 consideration | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 secure | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 secure | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 secure | mark |
| 9 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 secure | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 share | det |
| 13 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secure | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 conquest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 conquest | det |
| 16 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 conquest | amod |
| 17 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secure | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conquest | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 subjugated | punct |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 subjugated | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 subjugated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 subjugated | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 subjugated | aux:pass |
| 26 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 27 subjugated | advmod |
| 27 | subjugated | subjugate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 secure | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 secure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Muza's first consideration | Muza | the actual conquest of the land | a share obj; however, secure property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | subjugate | should · passive | consideration | entirely property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | consider | Muza | nom consideration «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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