Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 29

While Muza was thus disposing of his commands, and moving cumbrously under the weight of wealth, the veteran Taric was more speedy and alert in obeying the summons of the caliph.

Who acts: Muza, veteran, Cadiz · What happens: dispose, move, be, obey, command · To what, where: weight, summons · 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, veteran, Cadiz), 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 disposing	mark
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 disposing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 disposing	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 disposing	advmod
5	disposing	dispose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 speedy	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 commands	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 commands	nmod:poss
8	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 disposing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moving	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 moving	cc
11	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 disposing	parataxis
12	cumbrously	cumbrously	ADV	_	11 moving	advmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 weight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weight	det
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moving	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wealth	case
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weight	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 disposing	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 veteran	det
20	veteran	veteran	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speedy	nsubj
21	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 veteran	appos
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 speedy	cop
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 speedy	advmod
24	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 alert	cc
26	alert	alert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 speedy	conj
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 obeying	mark
28	obeying	obey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 speedy	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 summons	det
30	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 obeying	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 caliph	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 caliph	det
33	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 summons	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 speedy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dispose	past · progressive	Muza			of Cadiz's commands; thus property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
2	move	gerund			the weight of wealth	cumbrously property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory
3	is	past	the veteran			speedy property	tree rules
4	be speech: other		the veteran not said here				tree rules
5	obey	gerund	the veteran not said here	the summons of the caliph			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme
6	command		Cadiz				nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 29

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 29