Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 42
Muza saw at length that the walls were too high to be scaled, and the gates too strong to be burst open without the aid of engines; and he desisted from the attack until machines for the purpose could be constructed.
Who acts: Muza, walls · What happens: see, be, scale, burst, desist, construct · To what, where: length, attack, machines
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 (Muza, walls), 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 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 high | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 high | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 high | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 high | advmod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 scaled | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 scaled | aux:pass |
| 13 | scaled | scale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 high | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 strong | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strong | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gates | det |
| 17 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 strong | nsubj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 strong | advmod |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 burst | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 burst | aux:pass |
| 22 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 strong | advcl |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 burst | xcomp |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 aid | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 aid | det |
| 26 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burst | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 engines | case |
| 28 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 aid | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 desisted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 desisted | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 desisted | nsubj |
| 32 | desisted | desist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 attack | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 attack | det |
| 35 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 desisted | obl |
| 36 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 43 constructed | mark |
| 37 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 constructed | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 purpose | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 purpose | det |
| 40 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 machines | nmod |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 constructed | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 constructed | aux:pass |
| 43 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 desisted | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Muza | length | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the walls | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | scale | to-infinitive · passive | the walls not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | burst | to-infinitive · passive | Muza not said here | without the aid of engines; open property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | desist | past | Muza | the attack | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from attack=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | construct | could · passive | machines for the purpose | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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