Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 7
One word from my sovereign, and the conquerors of Africa will pour their legions into Andalusia, rescue it from the domination of the unbeliever, and subdue it to the law of the Koran.”
Who acts: One word, unbeliever · What happens: pour, rescue, subdue, dominate · To what, where: legions, Andalusia, word, domination
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 (One word, unbeliever), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 word | nummod |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pour | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sovereign | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pour | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pour | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 conquerors | det |
| 9 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pour | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 conquerors | nmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | aux |
| 13 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 legions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pour | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Andalusia | case |
| 17 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pour | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rescue | punct |
| 19 | rescue | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pour | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rescue | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 domination | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 domination | det |
| 23 | domination | domination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescue | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 unbeliever | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 unbeliever | det |
| 26 | unbeliever | unbeliever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 domination | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 subdue | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 subdue | cc |
| 29 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rescue | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 subdue | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 law | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 law | det |
| 33 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 subdue | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Koran | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Koran | det |
| 36 | Koran | Koran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 law | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 pour | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | future | One word from my sovereign | conquerors's legions | Andalusia | the conquerors of Africa nsubj | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent legion=Theme into andalusia=Destination | ||
| 2 | rescue | present | One word from my sovereign not said here | word | the domination of the unbeliever | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from domination=Source | |||
| 3 | subdue | infinitive | One word from my sovereign not said here | word | to the law of the Koran | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | dominate | the unbeliever | nom domination «act intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/11/7/