Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 1
After the capture of Merida, Muza gave a grand banquet to his captains and distinguished warriors in that magnificent city.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: give, capture · To what, where: grand banquet, captains, magnificent city, Merida
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 capture | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 capture | det |
| 3 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Merida | case |
| 5 | Merida | Merida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 capture | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 capture | punct |
| 7 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 banquet | det |
| 10 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 banquet | amod |
| 11 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 captains | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 captains | nmod:poss |
| 14 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 warriors | cc |
| 16 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warriors | amod |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 captains | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 city | det |
| 20 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 city | amod |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Muza | a grand banquet | Muza's captains and distinguished warriors | that magnificent city | after the capture of Merida | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme to captain=Recipient | |
| 2 | capture | Merida | nom capture «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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