Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 31
Meat and drink were placed before them; and after they had refreshed themselves they retired to the quarters allotted to them.
Who acts: Meat, merchants · What happens: place, refresh, retire, allot · To what, where: Meat, merchants, quarters
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 (Meat, merchants), 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 | Meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drink | cc |
| 3 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meat | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 placed | aux:pass |
| 5 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 placed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 refreshed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 refreshed | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 refreshed | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 refreshed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 refreshed | aux |
| 13 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 placed | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 refreshed | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 retired | nsubj |
| 16 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 refreshed | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 quarters | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 quarters | det |
| 19 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 retired | obl |
| 20 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 quarters | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allotted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Meat and drink | before merchants = merchant | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | refresh | past · perfect | Meat | merchants = merchant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | retire | past | merchants = merchant | to the quarters | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | allot | participle | the quarters not said here | merchants = merchant | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to they=Goal |
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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