Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 15

While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city brought him word that a chosen band intended to sally forth at midnight and surprise his camp.

Who acts: Muza, deserters · What happens: form, bring, choose, intend, sally, surprise · To what, where: encampment, word, Muza, camp

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, deserters), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 forming	mark
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forming	aux
4	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 brought	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 encampment	nmod:poss
6	encampment	encampment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 forming	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forming	punct
8	deserters	deserter	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	nsubj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deserters	nmod
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 intended	nsubj:pass
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 band	det
17	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 band	amod
18	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 intended	nsubj:pass
19	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 word	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sally	mark
21	sally	sally	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 intended	xcomp
22	forth	forth	ADV	_	21 sally	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 midnight	case
24	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sally	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 surprise	cc
26	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sally	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 camp	nmod:poss
28	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 surprise	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	form	past · progressive	Muza	Muza's encampment				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location encampment=Theme
2	bring	past	deserters from the city	word	Muza			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination word=Theme
3	choose	participle						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	intend	participle · passive		word			a chosen band nsubj:pass	tree rules
5	sally not said to happen	to-infinitive				midnight	forth property	tree rules
6	surprise	infinitive		Muza's camp				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus camp=Experiencer

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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 15