Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 7
Muza entered the city in a kind of triumph, with a long train of horses and mules and camels laden with treasure, and with the four hundred sons of Gothic nobles as hostages, each decorated with a diadem and a girdle of gold; and with one hundred Christian damsels, whose beauty dazzled all beholders.
Who acts: Muza, horses, Gothic nobles, beauty · What happens: enter, laden, decorate, dazzle · To what, where: city, kind, long train, each, beholders
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, horses, Gothic nobles, beauty), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kind | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 triumph | case |
| 9 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 train | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 train | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 train | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 train | amod |
| 14 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 horses | case |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laden | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mules | cc |
| 18 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 horses | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 camels | cc |
| 20 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 horses | conj |
| 21 | laden | laden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 train | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 treasure | case |
| 23 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laden | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sons | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sons | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 sons | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sons | det |
| 28 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 sons | nummod |
| 30 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 entered | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nobles | case |
| 32 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 nobles | amod |
| 33 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 sons | nmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 hostages | case |
| 35 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 nobles | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 decorated | punct |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 nobles | acl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 diadem | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 diadem | det |
| 41 | diadem | diadem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 decorated | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 girdle | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 girdle | det |
| 44 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 diadem | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 gold | case |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 girdle | nmod |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 dazzled | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 dazzled | cc |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 damsels | case |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 hundred | compound |
| 51 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 damsels | nummod |
| 52 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 damsels | amod |
| 53 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 dazzled | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 dazzled | punct |
| 55 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 56 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 56 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 dazzled | nsubj |
| 57 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 58 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 59 beholders | det |
| 59 | beholders | beholder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 dazzled | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Muza | the city | a kind of triumph | with a long train; with the hundred sons of Gothic nobles as hostages | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination | ||
| 2 | laden | present | horses and mules and camels | a long train not said here | with treasure | tree rules | |||
| 3 | decorate | participle · passive | Gothic nobles as hostages not said here | each | with a diadem and a girdle of gold | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diadem=Theme | |||
| 4 | dazzle | past | beauty | all beholders | with hundred Christian damsels | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beholder=Experiencer |
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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