Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 48
He sent off missives, in all speed, to the king; imparting, in brief and blunt terms, the news of the invasion, and craving assistance with equal frankness.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: send off, impart, crave · To what, where: missives, king, brief terms, assistance
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), 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 sent | compound:prt |
| 4 | missives | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speed | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 speed | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 speed | det |
| 8 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missives | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 imparting | punct |
| 14 | imparting | impart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 terms | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 terms | case |
| 17 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 terms | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blunt | cc |
| 19 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brief | conj |
| 20 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 imparting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 news | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 news | det |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 terms | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 invasion | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 invasion | det |
| 26 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 news | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 craving | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 craving | cc |
| 29 | craving | crave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 imparting | conj |
| 30 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 craving | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 frankness | case |
| 32 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 frankness | amod |
| 33 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 craving | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send off | past | Theodomir | missives and all speed | the king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent missive=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | impart | gerund | Theodomir not said here | brief terms and the news of the invasion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crave | gerund | Theodomir not said here | assistance | with equal frankness | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot assistance=Theme |
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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