Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 18

Muza listened to them with compassion, and granted their prayer; and the only tribute he exacted was three measures of wheat and three of barley from each house or family.

Who acts: Muza, only tribute, men · What happens: listen, grant, exact, be, pray · To what, where: men, prayer, only tribute, three measures

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, only tribute, men), 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	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 compassion	case
6	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 granted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 granted	cc
9	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prayer	nmod:poss
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 granted	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 measures	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 measures	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tribute	det
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tribute	amod
16	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measures	nsubj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 exacted	nsubj
18	exacted	exact	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tribute	acl:relcl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 measures	cop
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 measures	nummod
21	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 listened	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 wheat	case
23	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measures	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 three	cc
25	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 measures	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 barley	case
27	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 three	nmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 barley	nmod
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 family	cc
32	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Muza		men = man	with compassion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
2	grant	past	Muza not said here	men's prayer			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme
3	exact	past	Muza	the only tribute not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme
4	is a	past	the only tribute	three measures		of wheat; three of barley from each house or family conj	tree rules
5	pray		men = man				nom prayer «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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 18