Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 42
A herald was despatched defying Taric ben Zeyad to the contest, and the defiance was gladly accepted by the Moslem chieftain.
Who acts: Moslem chieftain · What happens: despatch, defy, accept · To what, where: herald, Taric, defiance
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moslem chieftain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 herald | det |
| 2 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 despatched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despatched | aux:pass |
| 4 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | defying | defy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 despatched | advcl |
| 6 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 defying | obj |
| 7 | ben | BenJacoby@ECT | X | _ | 6 Taric | flat:foreign |
| 8 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Taric | flat |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 contest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 contest | det |
| 11 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 accepted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 accepted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 defiance | det |
| 15 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 accepted | aux:pass |
| 17 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 18 accepted | advmod |
| 18 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 despatched | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 chieftain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chieftain | det |
| 21 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chieftain | amod |
| 22 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accepted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past · passive | a herald | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | defy | gerund | Taric | to the contest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accept | past · passive | the Moslem chieftain | the defiance | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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