Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 19

Muza answered, “I know not; one foot was wanting when it came into my hands.”

Who acts: Muza, one foot, foot · What happens: answer, not know, want, come · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Muza, one foot, foot), 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	Muza	Muza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	ccomp
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wanting	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 foot	nummod
10	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wanting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanting	aux
12	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 answered	ccomp
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanting	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wanting	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 wanting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Muza		tree rules
2	not know in a quote	present	Muza		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	want in a quote	past · progressive	one foot		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	come in a quote	past	foot	my hands	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location

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 XIV., sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 19