Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 48

He had passed the previous night without sleep, and had been all day in the field: he was exhausted, therefore, by watchfulness and fatigue; and his garments were covered with dust.

Who acts: Muza · What happens: pass, be, exhaust, cover · To what, where: day, field, Muza, garments

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	aux
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl:unmarked
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 day	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 day	cop
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 field	det
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 exhausted	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 exhausted	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 exhausted	aux:pass
21	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 therefore	punct
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	21 exhausted	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 watchfulness	punct
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 watchfulness	case
26	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 exhausted	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fatigue	cc
28	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watchfulness	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 covered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 covered	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 garments	nmod:poss
32	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 covered	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 covered	aux:pass
34	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 passed	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 dust	case
36	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 covered	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect	Muza			night	without sleep	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past · perfect		all day	the field			tree rules
3	exhaust	past · passive		Muza			watchfulness and fatigue parataxis; therefore property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	cover	past · passive		Muza's garments			with dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dust=Theme

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 48