Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 31
The spoils he had made in his conquests had either been shared among his soldiers, or yielded up to Muza, or squandered away with open-handed profusion.
Who acts: Cadiz · What happens: spoil, make, share, yield up, squander away, hand · To what, where: conquests, Muza
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spoils | det |
| 2 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 spoils | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 conquests | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conquests | nmod:poss |
| 8 | conquests | conquest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shared | obl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shared | aux |
| 10 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 shared | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 shared | aux:pass |
| 12 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 made | advcl |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 soldiers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yielded | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 yielded | cc |
| 18 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shared | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 yielded | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Muza | case |
| 21 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 yielded | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 squandered | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 squandered | cc |
| 24 | squandered | squander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 yielded | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 squandered | advmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 profusion | case |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 handed | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 open | punct |
| 29 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 profusion | amod |
| 30 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 squandered | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | Cadiz | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | share | past · perfect · passive | Cadiz not said here | Cadiz's conquests | among Cadiz's soldiers; either property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | yield up | participle | Muza | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to muza=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | squander away | participle | with handed profusion; away property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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