Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 30
So saying, he bestowed a great part of the spoils upon Taric and the other chiefs, but gave nothing to Muza; and the veteran retired amidst the sneers and murmurs of those present.
Who acts: CALIPH, great part, veteran · What happens: say, bestow, spoil, give, retire, murmur · To what, where: great part, nothing, Muza, present · 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 (CALIPH, great part, veteran), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bestowed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bestowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bestowed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoils | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spoils | det |
| 11 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 part | acl:relcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Taric | case |
| 13 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spoils | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chiefs | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chiefs | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chiefs | amod |
| 17 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Taric | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bestowed | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Muza | case |
| 23 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 retired | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 retired | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 veteran | det |
| 27 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 retired | nsubj |
| 28 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bestowed | conj |
| 29 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 31 sneers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sneers | det |
| 31 | sneers | sneer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 retired | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 murmurs | cc |
| 33 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sneers | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 present | case |
| 35 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 present | det |
| 36 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 murmurs | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | CALIPH not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bestow | past | CALIPH | a great part | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spoil | present | a great part not said here | upon Taric and the other chiefs | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | CALIPH not said here | nothing | Muza | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme to muza=Recipient | |||
| 5 | retire | past | the veteran | amidst the sneers and murmurs of that present | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | murmur | that present | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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