Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 41
The army received its favourite veteran with shouts of joy, and celebrated with rejoicings the reconciliation of the commanders: but the shouts of the soldiery were abhorrent to the ears of Muza.
Who acts: army, commanders · What happens: receive, shout, celebrate, be, reconcile · To what, where: favourite veteran, reconciliation
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 (army, commanders), 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 army | det |
| 2 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 veteran | nmod:poss |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 veteran | amod |
| 6 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 received | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 shouts | case |
| 8 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shouts | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 celebrated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 celebrated | cc |
| 13 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 received | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 rejoicings | case |
| 15 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 celebrated | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reconciliation | det |
| 17 | reconciliation | reconciliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 celebrated | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 commanders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 commanders | det |
| 20 | commanders | commander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reconciliation | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouts | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 shouts | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shouts | det |
| 24 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 soldiery | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 soldiery | det |
| 27 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abhorrent | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 abhorrent | cop |
| 29 | abhorrent | abhorrent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 shouts | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 ears | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ears | det |
| 32 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 abhorrent | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Muza | case |
| 34 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ears | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the army | head's favourite veteran | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veteran=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | the army not said here | of joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | the reconciliation of the commanders | with rejoicings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reconciliation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | of the soldiery; to the ears of Muza; abhorrent property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | reconcile | the commanders | nom reconciliation «act intransitive»: of=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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