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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 evince | advcl |
| 3 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 find | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Muza | case |
| 8 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 evince | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 evince | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 evince | mark |
| 12 | evince | evince | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 14 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evince | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 cause | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cause | det |
| 17 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evince | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 undertook | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 count | det |
| 20 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 undertook | nsubj |
| 21 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cause | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stratagem | punct |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 stratagem | case |
| 24 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stratagem | amod |
| 25 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 undertook | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 put | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 put | mark |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 evince | conj |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 city | det |
| 30 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 city | amod |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 power | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 power | nmod:poss |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 put | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 evince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | favour | the eyes of Muza | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | ||||
| 2 | evince | to-infinitive | Muza's devotion | to the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | undertake | past | the count | wily stratagem | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stratagem=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | this gallant city | count's power | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme in power=Destination | ||||
| 5 | devote | Muza | nom 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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