Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 14
So the Caliph sent missives to Muza, authorising him to undertake the conquest.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: send, authorise, undertake · To what, where: missives, Muza, conquest
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | missives | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Muza | case |
| 7 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 authorising | punct |
| 9 | authorising | authorise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 authorising | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 undertake | mark |
| 12 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 authorising | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 conquest | det |
| 14 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 undertake | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Caliph | missives | Muza | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent missive=Theme to muza=Destination | |||
| 2 | authorise | gerund | the Caliph not said here | Muza | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | undertake | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | the conquest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality |
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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