Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 3
City after city laid its keys at his feet, and implored to be received in peaceful vassalage.
Who acts: City · What happens: lay, implore, receive · To what, where: keys, feet, peaceful vassalage
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 (City), 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 | City | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 city | case |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 City | nmod |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 keys | nmod:poss |
| 6 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 implored | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 implored | cc |
| 12 | implored | implore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laid | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 received | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 received | aux:pass |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 implored | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vassalage | case |
| 17 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vassalage | amod |
| 18 | vassalage | vassalage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | City after city | City's keys | army's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent key=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | implore | participle | City after city not said here | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive · passive | City after city not said here | peaceful vassalage | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: in vassalage=Location |
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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