Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 65
Behold, we left the leader of the infidels an old and feeble man, and to-day we find him youthful and vigorous!”
Who acts: we · What happens: leave, find · To what, where: leader, Muza
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 (we), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leader | det |
| 6 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 infidels | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 infidels | det |
| 9 | infidels | infidel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leader | nmod |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feeble | cc |
| 13 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 old | conj |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 infidels | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 find | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obl |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 find | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 vigorous | cc |
| 25 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 youthful | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | we | the leader of the infidels a old man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | we | Muza | day | youthful property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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