Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 69
Those who chose to remain were protected in persons, possessions, and religion: he took the property of those only who abandoned the city, or had fallen in battle, together with all arms and horses, and the treasures and ornaments of the churches.
Who acts: Muza, treasures · What happens: choose, remain, protect, take, abandon, fall · To what, where: Those, property, city, battle
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, treasures), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 protected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remain | mark |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 chose | xcomp |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 protected | aux:pass |
| 7 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 persons | case |
| 9 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 protected | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 possessions | punct |
| 11 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 persons | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 religion | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 religion | cc |
| 14 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protected | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 protected | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 property | det |
| 19 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 property | nmod |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 who | advmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 abandoned | nsubj |
| 24 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 those | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 abandoned | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fallen | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 fallen | cc |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fallen | aux |
| 30 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 took | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 battle | case |
| 32 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fallen | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 together | punct |
| 34 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 arms | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 arms | det |
| 37 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 horses | cc |
| 39 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 arms | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ornaments | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ornaments | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 treasures | det |
| 43 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 ornaments | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ornaments | cc |
| 45 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 took | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 churches | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 churches | det |
| 48 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 ornaments | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 protected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | protect | past · passive | Those | in persons and possessions; religion conj | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Muza | the property of those | with all arms and horses; together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme | |||
| 5 | abandon | past | the city | who nsubj | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme city=Source | ||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | Muza not said here | battle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in battle=Location | ||||
| 7 | ornament | the treasures | of the churches | tree rules |
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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