Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 10

“Muza, on the contrary,” said they, “is grasping and insatiable: he levies intolerable contributions, and collects immense treasure, but sweeps it all into his own coffers.”

Who acts: Muza, TARIC · What happens: say, grasp, levy, collect, sweep · To what, where: intolerable contributions, immense treasure, treasure, own coffers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, TARIC), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Muza	punct
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 contrary	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 contrary	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 contrary	det
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Muza	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 contrary	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Muza	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grasping	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grasping	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 grasping	punct
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grasping	aux
14	grasping	grasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 insatiable	cc
16	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grasping	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 levies	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 levies	nsubj
19	levies	levy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
20	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 contributions	amod
21	contributions	contribution	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 levies	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 collects	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 collects	cc
24	collects	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 levies	conj
25	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 treasure	amod
26	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 collects	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sweeps	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 sweeps	cc
29	sweeps	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 levies	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sweeps	obj
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 it	det
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 coffers	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 coffers	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 coffers	amod
35	coffers	coffer	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sweeps	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 levies	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 levies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Muza			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grasp in a quote	present · progressive	Muza			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	levy in a quote	present	TARIC	intolerable contributions		tree rules
4	collect in a quote	present	TARIC not said here	immense treasure		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme
5	sweep in a quote	present	TARIC not said here	treasure	TARIC's own coffers	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into coffer=Destination

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 XIII., sentence 10

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 10