Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 36
Indulging his Arab inclinations, he made an inroad into the land, collected great spoil and many captives, and bore off his plunder in triumph to Muza, as a specimen of the riches to be gained by the conquest of the Christian land.
Who acts: JULIAN, conquest · What happens: indulge, make, collect, bear off, gain, incline · To what, where: Arab inclinations, inroad, land, great spoil, plunder, triumph
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 (JULIAN, conquest), 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 | Indulging | indulge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 made | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 inclinations | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 inclinations | amod |
| 4 | inclinations | inclination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Indulging | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indulging | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 inroad | det |
| 9 | inroad | inroad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 collected | punct |
| 14 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 spoil | amod |
| 16 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 collected | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 captives | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 captives | amod |
| 19 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoil | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bore | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bore | cc |
| 22 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 bore | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 plunder | nmod:poss |
| 25 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bore | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 triumph | case |
| 27 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bore | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Muza | case |
| 29 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 triumph | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 specimen | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 specimen | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 specimen | det |
| 33 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bore | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 riches | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 riches | det |
| 36 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 specimen | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 gained | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 gained | aux:pass |
| 39 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 specimen | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 conquest | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 conquest | det |
| 42 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gained | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 land | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 land | det |
| 45 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 land | amod |
| 46 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 conquest | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indulge | gerund | JULIAN not said here | JULIAN's Arab inclinations | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | JULIAN | a inroad | the land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent inroad=Material into land=Product | |||
| 3 | collect | past | great spoil and many captives | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bear off | past | JULIAN not said here | JULIAN's plunder | triumph to Muza | a specimen of the riches parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunder=Patient | ||
| 5 | gain | to-infinitive · passive | the conquest of the Christian land | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | incline | JULIAN | nom inclination «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | plunder | JULIAN | nom plunder «possession transitive»: poss=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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