Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 71
This prize was presented by Muza to the caliph, and placed in the principal mosque of the city of Damascus.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: present, place · To what, where: prize, caliph, principal mosque
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 presented | aux:pass |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Muza | case |
| 6 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 caliph | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 caliph | det |
| 9 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 presented | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mosque | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mosque | det |
| 15 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mosque | amod |
| 16 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mosque | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Damascus | case |
| 21 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 city | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past · passive | Muza | this prize | the caliph | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to caliph=Recipient | |||
| 2 | place | participle | Muza not said here | the principal mosque of the city of Damascus | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mosque=Destination |
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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