Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 33
They gathered together secretly at Gezira Alhadra, that is to say, the Green Island; where they held a conference with Count Julian in presence of Taric ben Zeyad.
Who acts: galleys, that · What happens: gather, be, hold · To what, where: Gezira, conference, presence
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (galleys, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathered | nsubj |
| 2 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 gathered | advmod |
| 4 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 2 gathered | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Gezira | case |
| 6 | Gezira | Gezira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gathered | obl |
| 7 | Alhadra | Alhadra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Gezira | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 say | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gathered | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Island | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Island | det |
| 15 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Island | compound |
| 16 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 say | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 held | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 conference | det |
| 22 | conference | conference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Julian | case |
| 24 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Julian | compound |
| 25 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 conference | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 presence | case |
| 27 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 ben | case |
| 29 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ben | compound |
| 30 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 presence | nmod |
| 31 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ben | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | galleys = galley | Gezira | secretly, together property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | that | the Green Island obj; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | galleys = galley | a conference | presence of Taric ben | with Count Julian | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent conference=Theme in presence=Location |
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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