Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 34
The anger of Muza, however, was not to be appeased; and he trusted to justify his measures by despatching missives to the caliph, complaining of the insubordination of Taric, and his rash and headlong conduct.
Who acts: Muza, rash · What happens: not be, trust, justify, despatch, complain, anger · To what, where: conduct, measures, missives
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, rash), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 anger | det |
| 2 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeased | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Muza | case |
| 4 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 anger | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 anger | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 appeased | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeased | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 appeased | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 appeased | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appeased | aux:pass |
| 12 | appeased | appease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 trusted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trusted | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trusted | nsubj |
| 16 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeased | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 justify | mark |
| 18 | justify | justify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 trusted | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 measures | nmod:poss |
| 20 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 justify | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 despatching | mark |
| 22 | despatching | despatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 justify | advcl |
| 23 | missives | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 despatching | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 caliph | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 caliph | det |
| 26 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 despatching | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 complaining | punct |
| 28 | complaining | complain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 despatching | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 insubordination | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 insubordination | det |
| 31 | insubordination | insubordination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 complaining | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Taric | case |
| 33 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 insubordination | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 conduct | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 conduct | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 rash | nmod:poss |
| 37 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 headlong | cc |
| 39 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 rash | conj |
| 40 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trusted | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · passive | the anger of Muza obl:unmarked; appease, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trust | past | Muza | Taric's rash's conduct | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | justify speech: other | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | Muza's measures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Topic | ||||
| 4 | despatch | gerund | Muza not said here | missives | to the caliph | tree rules | |||
| 5 | complain speech: other | gerund | Muza not said here | of the insubordination of Taric | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | anger | Muza | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | measure | Muza | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | conduct | Taric's rash | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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