Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 36
The renegado Magued cut off his head and tied it to the tail of his horse, and repaired with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza; but the hostility of the Arab general was of a less malignant kind.
Who acts: renegado, hostility · What happens: cut off, tie, repair, be · To what, where: head
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 (renegado, hostility), 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 | 2 renegado | det |
| 2 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 renegado | appos |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tied | cc |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tied | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tail | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tail | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 repaired | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 repaired | cc |
| 19 | repaired | repair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cut | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 trophy | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 trophy | det |
| 22 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 trophy | amod |
| 23 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 repaired | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 tent | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tent | det |
| 26 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trophy | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Muza | case |
| 28 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tent | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 kind | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 kind | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hostility | det |
| 32 | hostility | hostility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 kind | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 general | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 general | det |
| 35 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 general | amod |
| 36 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hostility | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 kind | cop |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 kind | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 kind | det |
| 40 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 41 malignant | advmod |
| 41 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 kind | amod |
| 42 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | the renegado | renegado's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | the renegado not said here | head | to the tail of renegado's horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | repair | participle | the renegado not said here | with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with trophy=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the hostility of the Arab general | of a malignant kind | tree rules |
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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