Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 16
The Arab commander immediately took measures to receive them with a counter surprise.
Who acts: Arab commander · What happens: take, receive · To what, where: measures
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 (Arab commander), 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 | 3 commander | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 commander | amod |
| 3 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 receive | mark |
| 8 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 took | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 receive | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 surprise | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 surprise | det |
| 12 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surprise | compound |
| 13 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 receive | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Arab commander | measures | immediately property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent measure=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the Arab commander not said here | measures = measure | with a counter surprise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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