Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 1

The army of Muza was now augmented to about eighteen thousand horsemen; but he took with him but few foot soldiers, leaving them to garrison the conquered towns.

Who acts: Muza, soldiers · What happens: augment, take, leave, garrison, conquer · To what, where: army, soldiers, conquered towns

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, soldiers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 army	det
2	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 augmented	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Muza	case
4	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 army	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 augmented	aux:pass
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 augmented	advmod
7	augmented	augment	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 horsemen	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 thousand	advmod
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 horsemen	nummod
12	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 augmented	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 augmented	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 soldiers	cc
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 soldiers	amod
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 soldiers	compound
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 him	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leaving	punct
24	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 took	advcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 leaving	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 garrison	mark
27	garrison	garrison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 leaving	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 towns	det
29	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 towns	amod
30	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 garrison	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 augmented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	augment	past · passive		the army of Muza	now	to thousand horsemen	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	take	past	Muza			with him = he	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	gerund	Muza not said here	soldiers = soldier			tree rules
4	garrison	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	the conquered towns			tree rules
5	conquer	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 1

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 1