Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 20
Having thus secured two important places in Andalusia, he passed the boundaries of the province, and advanced with great martial pomp into Lusitania.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: have, secure, pass · To what, where: two important places, Andalusia, boundaries
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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 secured | advmod |
| 3 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 places | nummod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 places | amod |
| 6 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 secured | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Andalusia | case |
| 8 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 places | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boundaries | det |
| 13 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 province | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 province | det |
| 16 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boundaries | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 advanced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 advanced | cc |
| 19 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passed | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 pomp | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pomp | amod |
| 22 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pomp | amod |
| 23 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 advanced | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Lusitania | case |
| 25 | Lusitania | Lusitania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 advanced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Muza not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | secure | participle | Muza not said here | two important places | Andalusia | thus property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition place=Theme | ||
| 3 | pass | past | Muza | the boundaries of the province | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boundary=Trajectory |
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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