Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 7
He landed his shining legions on the coast of Andalusia, and pitched his tents near to the Guadiana.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: land, shine, pitch · To what, where: shining legions, coast, tents, Guadiana
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 landed | nsubj |
| 2 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 legions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 legions | amod |
| 5 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 landed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 coast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coast | det |
| 8 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Andalusia | case |
| 10 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 coast | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pitched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pitched | cc |
| 13 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 landed | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pitched | obj |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 Guadiana | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Guadiana | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Guadiana | det |
| 19 | Guadiana | Guadiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pitched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Muza | Muza's shining legions | the coast of Andalusia | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent legion=Theme on coast=Destination | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pitch | past | Muza not said here | Muza's tents | the Guadiana | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme near guadiana=Destination |
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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