Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 11

“Surely,” cried he, at length, “all the people of the earth have combined their power and skill to embellish and aggrandise this city.

Who acts: people · What happens: cry, combine, embellish, aggrandise · To what, where: Muza, length, power, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Surely	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Surely	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 length	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 length	case
9	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 combined	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 combined	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 people	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 combined	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 people	nmod
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 combined	aux
19	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 power	nmod:poss
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 combined	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 skill	cc
23	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 power	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 embellish	mark
25	embellish	embellish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 combined	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 aggrandise	cc
27	aggrandise	aggrandise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 embellish	conj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 city	det
29	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 aggrandise	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		Muza	length	surely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	combine in a quote	present · perfect	all people of the earth	people's power and skill			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	embellish in a quote	to-infinitive	all people of the earth not said here				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	aggrandise in a quote	infinitive	all people of the earth not said here	this city			tree rules

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 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 11