Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 39
Those of thy followers who survive the battle will have this land for an inheritance; for those who fall, a mansion in paradise is prepared, and immortal houris await their coming.’
Who acts: followers, Those, immortal houris, houris · What happens: survive, have, fall, be, await, come · To what, where: battle, land
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (followers, Those, immortal houris, houris), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 have | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 followers | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 followers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Those | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 survive | nsubj |
| 6 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 followers | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survive | obj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 inheritance | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 inheritance | det |
| 15 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 prepared | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 prepared | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fall | nsubj |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mansion | det |
| 23 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 prepared | nsubj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 paradise | case |
| 25 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mansion | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 prepared | cop |
| 27 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 await | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 await | cc |
| 30 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 houris | amod |
| 31 | houris | houri | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 await | nsubj |
| 32 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 prepared | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 coming | nsubj |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 await | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | present | thy followers | the battle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme battle=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | have | future | Those of thy followers | this land | for a inheritance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | |||
| 3 | fall | present | who nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | those | a mansion in paradise nsubj; prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | await | present | immortal houris | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | houris = houri | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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