Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 43

He was about forty years of age; hardy, prompt, and sagacious; and had all the Gothic nobles been equally vigilant and shrewd in their defence, the banner of Islam would never have triumphed over the land.

Who acts: Theodomir, Gothic nobles, defence, historians · What happens: be, have, not triumph, defend · To what, where: forty years, defence, banner, land

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 (Theodomir, Gothic nobles, defence, historians), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 years	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 years	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 forty	advmod
4	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obl:unmarked
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 years	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hardy	punct
9	hardy	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prompt	punct
11	prompt	prompt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hardy	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sagacious	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sagacious	cc
14	sagacious	sagacious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hardy	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 nobles	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 nobles	det
20	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nobles	amod
21	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 vigilant	nsubj
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 vigilant	cop
23	equally	equally	ADV	_	24 vigilant	advmod
24	vigilant	vigilant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 had	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shrewd	cc
26	shrewd	shrewd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vigilant	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 defence	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 defence	nmod:poss
29	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vigilant	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 banner	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 banner	det
32	banner	banner	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 triumphed	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Islam	case
34	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 banner	nmod
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 triumphed	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 triumphed	advmod
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 triumphed	aux
38	triumphed	triumph	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 defence	acl:relcl
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 land	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 land	det
41	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 triumphed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Theodomir	forty years		of age		tree rules
2	have	past						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	all Gothic nobles		historians's defence		equally, vigilant property	tree rules
4	be		all Gothic nobles not said here					tree rules
5	not triumph	would · perfect · passive	historians's defence not said here	the banner of Islam	the land			tree rules
6	defend		historians = historian					nom defence «process 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 43

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 43