Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 19
Muza now took command of the siege, and ordered a general assault upon the walls.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: take, order, command · To what, where: command, general assault, siege · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 siege | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 siege | det |
| 7 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 command | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ordered | cc |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 assault | det |
| 12 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 assault | amod |
| 13 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 walls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 walls | det |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Muza | command of the siege | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | order | past | a general assault | upon the walls | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assault=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | the siege | nom command «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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