Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3
During his illness, tidings were brought that Muza ben Nozier had entered Syria with a vast cavalcade, bearing all the riches and trophies gained in the western conquests.
Who acts: riches · What happens: bring, enter, bear, gain · To what, where: tidings, Muza ben
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 (riches), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 illness | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 illness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 illness | punct |
| 5 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 entered | mark |
| 9 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ben | compound |
| 10 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Nozier | Nozier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ben | appos |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 entered | aux |
| 13 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 brought | advcl |
| 14 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 cavalcade | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cavalcade | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cavalcade | amod |
| 18 | cavalcade | cavalcade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entered | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bearing | punct |
| 20 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 entered | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 riches | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 riches | det |
| 23 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gained | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 trophies | cc |
| 25 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 riches | conj |
| 26 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bearing | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 conquests | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 conquests | det |
| 29 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 conquests | amod |
| 30 | conquests | conquest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gained | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | tidings | during CALIPH's illness | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect · passive | Muza ben | with a vast cavalcade; Syria obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | gain | past | all riches and trophies | in the western conquests | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in conquest=Attribute |
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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