Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 19
He placed a garrison of Arabs in the city, and left there a number of Jews to form a body of population.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: place, leave, form · To what, where: garrison, city, number, body
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 garrison | det |
| 4 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Arabs | case |
| 6 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 garrison | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 left | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Jews | case |
| 17 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 form | mark |
| 19 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 form | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 population | case |
| 23 | population | population | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 body | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Muza | a garrison of Arabs | the city | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garrison=Theme in city=Destination | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Muza not said here | a number of Jews | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | a body of population | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme |
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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