Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 8
There first he received intelligence of the disobedience of Taric to his orders, and that, without waiting his arrival, the impetuous chieftain had continued his career, and with his light Arab squadrons had overrun and subdued the noblest provinces and cities of the kingdom.
Who acts: Muza, that, arrival · What happens: receive, wait, continue, overrun, subdue, disobey · To what, where: intelligence, arrival, impetuous chieftain, noblest provinces, Taric
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, that, arrival), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 received | expl |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 received | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 disobedience | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 disobedience | det |
| 8 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intelligence | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Taric | case |
| 10 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 disobedience | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 orders | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 orders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 received | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waiting | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 waiting | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 waiting | mark |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 received | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waiting | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 continued | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chieftain | det |
| 24 | impetuous | impetuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chieftain | amod |
| 25 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 continued | aux |
| 27 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 arrival | acl:relcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 career | nmod:poss |
| 29 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 continued | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 overrun | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 overrun | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 squadrons | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 squadrons | nmod:poss |
| 34 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 squadrons | amod |
| 35 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 squadrons | amod |
| 36 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 overrun | obl |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 overrun | aux |
| 38 | overrun | overrun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 received | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 subdued | cc |
| 40 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 overrun | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 provinces | det |
| 42 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 provinces | amod |
| 43 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 subdued | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 cities | cc |
| 45 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 provinces | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 kingdom | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 kingdom | det |
| 48 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cities | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Muza | intelligence of the disobedience of Taric | there | to Muza's orders; first property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme | ||
| 2 | wait | gerund | that | Muza's arrival | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | continue | past · perfect · passive | Muza's arrival not said here | the impetuous chieftain | Muza's career obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | overrun | past · perfect | Muza not said here | with Muza's light Arab squadrons | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | subdue | past | Muza not said here | the noblest provinces and cities of the kingdom | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Patient | ||||
| 6 | disobey | Taric | nom disobedience «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | order | Muza | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | arrive | Muza | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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