Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 40

The priests covered it with a pall of cloth of gold, and bore it back in melancholy procession to the city, where it was received with loud lamentations.

Who acts: priests · What happens: cover, bear back, receive, pall · To what, where: permission, melancholy procession, cloth

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 (priests), 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 priests	det
2	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	nsubj
3	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pall	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pall	det
7	pall	pall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cloth	case
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pall	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bore	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bore	cc
14	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bore	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	14 bore	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 procession	case
18	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 procession	compound
19	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bore	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 received	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 received	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 received	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 received	aux:pass
27	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 city	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 lamentations	case
29	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lamentations	amod
30	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 received	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past	the priests	permission		with a pall of cloth of gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pall=Theme
2	bear back	past	the priests not said here	permission	melancholy procession	to the city	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	receive	past · passive		permission		with loud lamentations	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	pall			cloth of gold			nom pall «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 40