Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 10
He remained for some time gazing in silence upon its mighty walls and lordly towers, its vast extent, and the stately palaces and temples with which it was adorned.
Who acts: Muza, silence · What happens: remain, gaze, adorn, extend · To what, where: stately palaces
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, silence), 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 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 6 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remained | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 silence | case |
| 8 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gazing | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 walls | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walls | amod |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gazing | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 towers | cc |
| 14 | lordly | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 towers | amod |
| 15 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 walls | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 extent | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 extent | nmod:poss |
| 18 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 extent | amod |
| 19 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walls | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 adorned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 adorned | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palaces | det |
| 23 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 palaces | amod |
| 24 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 temples | cc |
| 26 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 palaces | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 adorned | obl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 adorned | aux:pass |
| 31 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remained | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Muza | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | Muza not said here | upon silence's mighty walls and lordly towers and silence's vast extent; in silence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adorn | past · passive | the stately palaces and temples | which obl; extent nsubj:pass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | extend | silence | nom extent «state transitive»: 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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