Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 9
When Muza came in sight of this magnificent city, he was struck with admiration.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: come, strike, sight · To what, where: sight, Muza, magnificent city
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 city | det |
| 8 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 struck | aux:pass |
| 13 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 admiration | case |
| 15 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 struck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Muza | sight of this magnificent city | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | strike | past · passive | Muza | with admiration | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with admiration=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | sight | this magnificent city | nom sight «cognition 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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