Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 11
And they heaped benedictions on the head of Muza.
Who acts: purses · What happens: heap · To what, where: benedictions, head
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purses), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 heaped | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heaped | nsubj |
| 3 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | benedictions | benediction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heaped | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heaped | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Muza | case |
| 9 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap | past | purses = purse | benedictions | the head of Muza | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent benediction=Theme on head=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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