Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 5
Muza ben Nozier crossed the strait of Hercules with a chosen force of ten thousand horse and eight thousand foot, Arabs and Africans.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: cross, choose · To what, where: strait
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), 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 | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | ben | BenJacoby@ECT | X | _ | 1 Muza | flat:foreign |
| 3 | Nozier | Nozier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Muza | flat |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 strait | det |
| 6 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hercules | case |
| 8 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 strait | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 force | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 force | det |
| 11 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 force | amod |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thousand | compound |
| 15 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horse | nummod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 force | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 foot | cc |
| 18 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 thousand | compound |
| 19 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 foot | nummod |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Arabs | punct |
| 22 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 force | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Africans | cc |
| 24 | Africans | African | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 Arabs | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Muza | the strait of Hercules | with a chosen force of thousand horse and thousand foot Arabs and Africans | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Patient | |||
| 2 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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