Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 33
Upon this the Arab host shouted for joy, and felt assured of conquest.
What happens: shout, feel, assure · To what, where: Arab host
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: 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 host | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 4 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 host | amod |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 host | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shouted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 host | conj |
| 12 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 conquest | case |
| 14 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assured | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | the Arab host upon this not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | assure | participle | of conquest | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent of conquest=Topic |
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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