Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 5
Already we have overcome the tribes of Berbery, of Zab, of Derar, of Zaara, Mazamuda, and Sus; and the victorious standard of Islam floats on the towers of Tangier.
Who acts: we, victorious standard · What happens: overcome, float · To what, where: tribes, towers
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 (we, victorious standard), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 4 overcome | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 overcome | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | aux |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tribes | det |
| 6 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overcome | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Berbery | case |
| 8 | Berbery | Berbery | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tribes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Zab | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Zab | case |
| 11 | Zab | Zab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Derar | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Derar | case |
| 14 | Derar | Derar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Zab | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Zaara | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Zaara | case |
| 17 | Zaara | Zaara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mazamuda | punct |
| 19 | Mazamuda | Mazamuda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zaara | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Sus | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Sus | cc |
| 22 | Sus | Sus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Zaara | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 floats | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 floats | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 standard | det |
| 26 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 standard | amod |
| 27 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 floats | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Islam | case |
| 29 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 standard | nmod |
| 30 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 towers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 towers | det |
| 33 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 floats | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Tangier | case |
| 35 | Tangier | Tangier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 towers | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | present · perfect | we | the tribes of Berbery | of Zab and Derar; of Zaara and Mazamuda and Sus | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tribe=Theme | |||
| 2 | float | present | the victorious standard of Islam | the towers of Tangier | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tower=Trajectory |
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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