Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 11
Taking guides, therefore, from among his Christian captives, he set out to subdue such parts of the country as had not been visited by Taric.
Who acts: Muza, Taric · What happens: take, set out, subdue, not visit · To what, where: guides, Christian captives, such parts
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 (Muza, 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 set | advcl |
| 2 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 captives | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 captives | case |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 captives | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 captives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 captives | amod |
| 10 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 subdue | mark |
| 16 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 parts | amod |
| 18 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subdue | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 parts | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 visited | advmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 visited | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 visited | advmod |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 visited | aux:pass |
| 26 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 subdue | advcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Taric | case |
| 28 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 visited | obl:agent |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Muza not said here | guides | Muza's Christian captives | therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent guide=Theme from captive=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | set out | past | Muza | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | subdue | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | such parts of the country | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not visit | past · perfect · passive | Taric | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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