Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 23
After having heard a solemn mass, and received the benediction of the priest, they marched out of the gate with all possible silence.
Who acts: forces · What happens: have, hear, receive, march · To what, where: solemn mass, benediction, gate
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 (forces), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 having | mark |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | advcl |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mass | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mass | amod |
| 6 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 received | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 received | cc |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 benediction | det |
| 11 | benediction | benediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 priest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 priest | det |
| 14 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 benediction | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 marched | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 marched | nsubj |
| 17 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 gate | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gate | det |
| 21 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marched | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 silence | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 silence | det |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 silence | amod |
| 25 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marched | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | a solemn mass | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mass=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | receive | past | the benediction of the priest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benediction=Theme | |||||
| 4 | march | past | forces = force | the gate | with all possible silence | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out gate=Trajectory |
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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