Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 24
Muza was confounded for a moment, but attempted to vindicate himself.
What happens: confound, attempt, vindicate · To what, where: Muza
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: 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 | 3 confounded | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | confounded | confound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confounded | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 attempted | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 attempted | cc |
| 9 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 confounded | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 vindicate | mark |
| 11 | vindicate | vindicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 attempted | xcomp |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 vindicate | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confound | past · passive | Muza | moment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | attempt | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | vindicate not said to happen | to-infinitive | MUZA | tree rules |
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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