Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 56
The unsteady populace were again seized with terror; and, surrounding their governor with fresh clamours, obliged him to send forth ambassadors a second time to treat of a surrender.
What happens: seize, surround, oblige, send, treat · To what, where: unsteady populace, governor, arrival, ambassadors
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: 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 | 3 populace | det |
| 2 | unsteady | unsteady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 populace | amod |
| 3 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | aux:pass |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 seized | advmod |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 terror | case |
| 8 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 surrounding | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 surrounding | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surrounding | punct |
| 12 | surrounding | surround | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seized | parataxis |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 governor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounding | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 clamours | case |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clamours | amod |
| 17 | clamours | clamour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 surrounding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 obliged | punct |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surrounding | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 obliged | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 send | mark |
| 22 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 send | advmod |
| 24 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 send | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 send | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 treat | mark |
| 29 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 time | acl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 surrender | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 surrender | det |
| 32 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 treat | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the unsteady populace | again | with terror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | surround | gerund | terror's governor | with fresh clamours | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent governor=Destination with clamour=Theme | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past | arrival | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | send | to-infinitive | ambassadors | time | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme | |||
| 5 | treat | to-infinitive | of a surrender | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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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