Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 3
Understanding from his spies that the city had lost the flower of its youth in the battle of the Guadalete, Muza anticipated but a faint resistance.
Who acts: flower, city · What happens: understand, lose, anticipate, battle · To what, where: spies, Guadalete
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 (flower, city), 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 | Understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 anticipated | advcl |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 spies | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 spies | nmod:poss |
| 4 | spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Understanding | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lost | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | aux |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 anticipated | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flower | det |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 anticipated | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 youth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flower | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 battle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 battle | det |
| 17 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 youth | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Guadalete | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Guadalete | det |
| 20 | Guadalete | Guadalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 battle | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Muza | punct |
| 22 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Guadalete | conj |
| 23 | anticipated | anticipate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 resistance | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 resistance | det |
| 26 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 resistance | amod |
| 27 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 anticipated | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 anticipated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | gerund | the flower of city's youth in the battle of the Guadalete and Muza not said here | Seville's spies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | the city | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | anticipate | past | the flower of city's youth in the battle of the Guadalete and Muza | a faint resistance conj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | battle | the Guadalete and Muza | nom battle «act 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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