Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 5
Muza, however, paid no attention to the messages of Suleiman, but rather hastened his march to arrive before the death of the caliph.
Who acts: Muza, caliph · What happens: pay, hasten, arrive, die · To what, where: attention, march
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, caliph), 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 | 5 paid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Muza | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 paid | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 attention | det |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 messages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 messages | det |
| 10 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 paid | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Suleiman | case |
| 12 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 messages | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hastened | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hastened | cc |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 hastened | advmod |
| 16 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 paid | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 march | nmod:poss |
| 18 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hastened | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 arrive | mark |
| 20 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hastened | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 death | det |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrive | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 caliph | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 caliph | det |
| 26 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 death | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Muza | no attention | to the messages of Suleiman; however property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | Muza not said here | Suleiman's march | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent march=Patient | ||||
| 3 | arrive | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | before the death of the caliph | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | the caliph | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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