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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 27

To find favour in the eyes of Muza, and to evince his devotion to the cause, the count undertook, by wily stratagem, to put this gallant city in his power.

Who acts: count, Muza · What happens: find, evince, undertake, put, devote · To what, where: favour, eyes, devotion, wily stratagem, gallant city, power

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 (count, 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

markadvclobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccmarknmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctdetnsubjacl:relclpunctcaseamodobjpunctmarkconjdetamodobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootToPARTfindVERBfavourNOUNinADPtheDETeyesNOUNofADPMuzaPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTevinceVERBhisPRONdevotionNOUNtoADPtheDETcauseNOUN,PUNCTtheDETcountNOUNundertookVERB,PUNCTbyADPwilyADJstratagemNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTputVERBthisDETgallantADJcityNOUNinADPhisPRONpowerNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoPART_2 findmark
2findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf12 evinceadvcl
3favourfavourNOUNNumber=Sing2 findobj
4ininADP_6 eyescase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 eyesdet
6eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur2 findobl
7ofofADP_8 Muzacase
8MuzaMuzaPROPNNumber=Sing6 eyesnmod
9,,PUNCT_12 evincepunct
10andandCCONJ_12 evincecc
11totoPART_12 evincemark
12evinceevinceVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 devotionnmod:poss
14devotiondevotionNOUNNumber=Sing12 evinceobj
15totoADP_17 causecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 causedet
17causecauseNOUNNumber=Sing12 evinceobl
18,,PUNCT_21 undertookpunct
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 countdet
20countcountNOUNNumber=Sing21 undertooknsubj
21undertookundertakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 causeacl:relcl
22,,PUNCT_25 stratagempunct
23bybyADP_25 stratagemcase
24wilywilyADJDegree=Pos25 stratagemamod
25stratagemstratagemNOUNNumber=Sing21 undertookobj
26,,PUNCT_28 putpunct
27totoPART_28 putmark
28putputVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin12 evinceconj
29thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem31 citydet
30gallantgallantADJDegree=Pos31 cityamod
31citycityNOUNNumber=Sing28 putobj
32ininADP_34 powercase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 powernmod:poss
34powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing28 putobl
35..PUNCT_12 evincepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findto-infinitivefavourthe eyes of Muzavn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic
2evinceto-infinitiveMuza's devotionto the causetree rules
3undertakepastthe countwily stratagemvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stratagem=Eventuality
4putto-infinitivethis gallant citycount's powervn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme in power=Destination
5devoteMuzanom devotion «feeling 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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