Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 1
MUZA PROSECUTES THE SCHEME OF CONQUEST.—SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA.—COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF SPAIN.
Who acts: MUZA · What happens: prosecute, scheme, subjugate · To what, where: SCHEME, CONQUEST, SPAIN
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. 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 | MUZA | MUZA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 PROSECUTES | nsubj |
| 2 | PROSECUTES | prosecute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 SCHEME | det |
| 4 | SCHEME | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 PROSECUTES | obj |
| 5 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 6 CONQUEST | case |
| 6 | CONQUEST | CONQUEST | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 SCHEME | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 PROSECUTES | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 SIEGE | punct |
| 9 | SIEGE | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 PROSECUTES | parataxis |
| 10 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 11 SARAGOSSA | case |
| 11 | SARAGOSSA | SARAGOSSA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 SIEGE | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 SIEGE | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 SUBJUGATION | punct |
| 14 | COMPLETE | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 SUBJUGATION | amod |
| 15 | SUBJUGATION | subjugation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 SIEGE | conj |
| 16 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 17 SPAIN | case |
| 17 | SPAIN | spain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 SUBJUGATION | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 PROSECUTES | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prosecute | present | MUZA | the SCHEME of CONQUEST | SIEGE of SARAGOSSA and COMPLETE SUBJUGATION of SPAIN parataxis | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Patient | |||
| 2 | scheme | CONQUEST | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | subjugate | SPAIN | nom subjugation «state 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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