Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 4
What is to prevent this glorious land from becoming the inheritance of the faithful?
What happens: be, become · To what, where: inheritance
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 prevent | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prevent | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prevent | mark |
| 4 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 land | det |
| 6 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prevent | obj |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 becoming | mark |
| 9 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prevent | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 inheritance | det |
| 11 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becoming | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 faithful | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 faithful | det |
| 14 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 inheritance | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | What obj; this glorious land obj; prevent property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | gerund | the inheritance of the faithful | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient inheritance=Result |
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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