Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 25
Muza was astonished and exasperated at meeting with such formidable resistance from so small a city; for it was one of the few places, during that memorable conquest, where the Gothic valour shone forth with its proper lustre.
Who acts: Muza, attack, Gothic valour · What happens: be, exasperate, shine · To what, where: meeting
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, attack, Gothic valour), 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 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 astonished | cop |
| 3 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 exasperated | cc |
| 5 | exasperated | exasperate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 astonished | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 meeting | case |
| 7 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exasperated | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 resistance | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 resistance | amod |
| 10 | formidable | formidable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 resistance | amod |
| 11 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meeting | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 city | amod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resistance | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 astonished | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 places | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 places | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 places | amod |
| 25 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 places | punct |
| 27 | during | during | ADP | _ | 30 conquest | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 conquest | det |
| 29 | memorable | memorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 conquest | amod |
| 30 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 places | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shone | punct |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 shone | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 valour | det |
| 34 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 valour | amod |
| 35 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shone | nsubj |
| 36 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 conquest | acl:relcl |
| 37 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 36 shone | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 lustre | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 lustre | nmod:poss |
| 40 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 lustre | amod |
| 41 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shone | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Muza | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exasperate | participle | Muza not said here | meeting with such formidable resistance from a small city | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | attack | for one; of the few places during that memorable conquest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | participle | the Gothic valour | with attack's proper lustre; forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme |
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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