Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 15
Muza was at a loss to know the meaning of this desperate sally.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: be, know, mean · To what, where: loss, meaning, desperate sally
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. 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 | 5 loss | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 loss | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 loss | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loss | det |
| 5 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loss | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meaning | det |
| 9 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sally | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sally | det |
| 12 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sally | amod |
| 13 | sally | sally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meaning | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Muza | a loss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the meaning of this desperate sally | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mean | this desperate sally | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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