Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 22
About midnight, the chosen force intended for the sally assembled, and the command was confided to Count Tendero, a Gothic cavalier of tried prowess.
Who acts: chosen force · What happens: choose, intend, assemble, confide, count, try · To what, where: chosen force, command, Tendero
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 (chosen force), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assembled | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 force | det |
| 5 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 force | amod |
| 6 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assembled | nsubj |
| 7 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 force | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 sally | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sally | det |
| 10 | sally | sally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intended | obl |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 confided | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 confided | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 command | det |
| 15 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confided | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 confided | aux:pass |
| 17 | confided | confide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 assembled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 Count | mark |
| 19 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 confided | advcl |
| 20 | Tendero | Tendero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Count | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cavalier | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cavalier | det |
| 23 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cavalier | amod |
| 24 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tendero | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 prowess | case |
| 26 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 prowess | amod |
| 27 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cavalier | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | intend | participle | the chosen force not said here | for the sally | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | assemble | past | the chosen force | midnight | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | confide speech: other | past · passive | the command | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | count | to-infinitive | Tendero | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendero=Theme | |||||
| 6 | try | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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