Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 77
Gathering together all those who chose to accompany him into exile, he embarked, to seek some country where he might live in peace, and in the free exercise of his religion.
Who acts: Sacarus · What happens: gather, choose, accompany, embark, seek, live · To what, where: those, Sacarus, exile, country, peace, religion
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 (Sacarus), 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 | Gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 embarked | advcl |
| 2 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Gathering | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 those | det:predet |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Gathering | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 chose | nsubj |
| 6 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accompany | mark |
| 8 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chose | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 accompany | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 exile | case |
| 11 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accompany | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gathering | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 embarked | nsubj |
| 14 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seek | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seek | mark |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 embarked | ccomp |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 live | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 country | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 exercise | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 exercise | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 exercise | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 exercise | det |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 exercise | amod |
| 31 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 religion | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 religion | nmod:poss |
| 34 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 exercise | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 embarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | gerund | Sacarus not said here | those | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 2 | choose | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | accompany | to-infinitive | Sacarus | exile | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into exile=Destination | ||||
| 4 | embark | past | Sacarus | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | Sacarus not said here | some country | the free exercise of Sacarus's religion conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | |||
| 6 | live | might | Sacarus | peace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 7 | exercise | Sacarus's religion | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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