Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 92
Feud between the Arab Generals.—They are summoned to appear before the Caliph at Damascus.—Reception of Taric 273
What happens: summon, appear, receive · To what, where: Generals, Damascus, Feud, Taric
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. 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 | Feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 Generals | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Generals | det |
| 4 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Generals | amod |
| 5 | Generals | General | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Feud | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feud | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoned | punct |
| 8 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 summoned | aux:pass |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Feud | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 appear | mark |
| 12 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 summoned | xcomp |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 Caliph | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Caliph | det |
| 15 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Damascus | case |
| 17 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feud | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Reception | punct |
| 20 | Reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feud | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Taric | case |
| 22 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Reception | nmod |
| 23 | 273 | 273 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Taric | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | present · passive | Generals = general | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | Damascus | before the Caliph | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before caliph=Location | ||||
| 4 | receive | Taric | nom reception «communication 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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