Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 49
“What a devil of a man is this,” murmured the ambassadors one to another, “to undertake such a siege when on the verge of the grave!
Who acts: devil, this · What happens: be, murmur, undertake · To what, where: this, ambassadors, siege · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (devil, this), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmured | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 devil | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 devil | det |
| 4 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 this | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 devil | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 this | cop |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 murmured | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 this | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 this | punct |
| 12 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ambassadors | det |
| 14 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 murmured | obj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ambassadors | flat |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 undertake | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 undertake | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 undertake | mark |
| 21 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 murmured | parataxis |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 siege | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 siege | det |
| 24 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 undertake | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 undertake | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 verge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 verge | det |
| 28 | verge | verge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 when | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 grave | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 grave | det |
| 31 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 verge | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | what devil of a man | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | this | the ambassadors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | undertake in a quote | to-infinitive | such siege | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siege=Eventuality |
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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