Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 40
He concealed, however, his deep humiliation, and affected to obey the orders of his sovereign with great alacrity: he released Taric from prison, feasted him at his own table, and then publicly replaced him at the head of his troops.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: conceal, affect, obey, release, feast, replace · To what, where: deep humiliation, orders, Taric, prison, Muza, own table
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 concealed | nsubj |
| 2 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 humiliation | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 humiliation | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 humiliation | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 humiliation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 humiliation | amod |
| 8 | humiliation | humiliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 concealed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 affected | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 affected | cc |
| 11 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 concealed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 obey | mark |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 affected | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 orders | det |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 obey | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sovereign | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 orders | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 alacrity | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 alacrity | amod |
| 21 | alacrity | alacrity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sovereign | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 released | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 released | nsubj |
| 24 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 concealed | parataxis |
| 25 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 released | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 prison | case |
| 27 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 released | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feasted | punct |
| 29 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 released | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 feasted | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 table | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 table | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 table | amod |
| 34 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 feasted | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 replaced | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 replaced | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 replaced | advmod |
| 38 | publicly | publicly | ADV | _ | 39 replaced | advmod |
| 39 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 concealed | parataxis |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 replaced | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 head | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 head | det |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 replaced | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 troops | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 troops | nmod:poss |
| 46 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 43 head | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past | Muza | Muza's deep humiliation | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | affect | participle | Muza not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | the orders of Muza's sovereign with great alacrity | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | release | past | Muza | Taric | prison | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer taric=Source | |||
| 5 | feast | past | Muza not said here | Muza | Muza's own table | tree rules | |||
| 6 | replace | past | Muza | the head of Muza's troops | then | publicly property | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||
| 7 | humiliate | Muza | nom humiliation «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | order | Muza's sovereign with great alacrity | nom order «communication 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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