Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 5

Notwithstanding the outward reconciliation of Muza and Taric, a deep and implacable hostility continued to exist between them; and each had busy partisans who distracted the armies by their feuds.

Who acts: busy partisans, Muza, armies · What happens: notwithstand, continue, exist, have, distract, reconcile · To what, where: outward reconciliation, deep hostility, busy partisans, armies

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 (busy partisans, Muza, armies), 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	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reconciliation	det
3	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reconciliation	amod
4	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Notwithstanding	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Muza	case
6	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reconciliation	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Taric	cc
8	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Muza	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hostility	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hostility	det
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hostility	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 implacable	cc
13	implacable	implacable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deep	conj
14	hostility	hostility	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Muza	appos
15	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hostility	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 exist	mark
17	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 continued	xcomp
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 exist	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 had	advmod
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Notwithstanding	conj
24	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 partisans	amod
25	partisans	partisan	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 distracted	nsubj
27	distracted	distract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 partisans	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 armies	det
29	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 distracted	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 feuds	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 feuds	nmod:poss
32	feuds	feud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 distracted	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Notwithstanding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	notwithstand	gerund		the outward reconciliation of Muza and Taric		tree rules
2	continue	participle		a deep hostility not said here		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	exist	to-infinitive			between Muza	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location
4	have	past		busy partisans		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partisan=Patient
5	distract	past	busy partisans	the armies	by armies's feuds	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus army=Experiencer
6	reconcile		Muza and Taric			nom reconciliation «act intransitive»: of=agent
7	feud		armies = army			nom feud «act intransitive»: 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 5

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 5