Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 13
Such was the greeting from his sovereign that awaited Muza on his return from the conquest of northern Spain.
Who acts: Such, sovereign · What happens: be, await, return · To what, where: greeting, sovereign, Muza, return, conquest
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 (Such, sovereign), 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 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 greeting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeting | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 greeting | det |
| 4 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sovereign | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeting | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 awaited | nsubj |
| 9 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sovereign | acl:relcl |
| 10 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 awaited | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 return | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 return | nmod:poss |
| 13 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awaited | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 conquest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 conquest | det |
| 16 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Spain | case |
| 18 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Spain | amod |
| 19 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 conquest | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greeting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Such | the greeting | Such's sovereign | tree rules | |||
| 2 | await | past | Such's sovereign | Muza | Such's return from the conquest of northern Spain | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | Such | the conquest of northern Spain | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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