Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 13

While Taric was thus sweeping the country to the north-east, Muza departed in an opposite direction; yet purposing to meet him, and to join their forces in the north.

Who acts: Taric, Muza · What happens: sweep, depart, purpose, meet, join · To what, where: country, north east, opposite direction, Taric, forces, north

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 (Taric, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 sweeping	mark
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sweeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sweeping	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 sweeping	advmod
5	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 departed	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweeping	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 east	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 east	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 east	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 north	punct
12	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweeping	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sweeping	punct
14	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 departed	nsubj
15	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 direction	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 direction	det
18	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 direction	amod
19	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 departed	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 purposing	punct
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	22 purposing	cc
22	purposing	purpose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 departed	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 purposing	xcomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 meet	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 join	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 join	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 join	mark
29	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 purposing	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 forces	nmod:poss
31	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 join	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 north	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 north	det
34	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 join	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 departed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sweep	past · progressive	Taric	the country	the north east	thus property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme to east=Trajectory
2	depart	past	Muza		a opposite direction		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	purpose speech: other	gerund	Muza not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	meet	to-infinitive	Muza not said here	Taric			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	join	to-infinitive	Muza not said here	recesses's forces	the north		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 13

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 13