Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 31
But I claim the compact made with Taric ben Zeyad, that my nephews be placed in dominion over Spain, and tributary only to the Caliph of Damascus.”
Who acts: I · What happens: claim, make, place · To what, where: compact, nephews, dominion
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 claim | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 claim | nsubj |
| 3 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 compact | det |
| 5 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claim | obj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 compact | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ben | case |
| 8 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ben | compound |
| 9 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ben | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 placed | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nephews | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nephews | nephew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 placed | aux:pass |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 claim | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dominion | case |
| 18 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 Spain | case |
| 20 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tributary | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tributary | cc |
| 23 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claim | parataxis |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 Caliph | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Caliph | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Caliph | det |
| 27 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 tributary | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Damascus | case |
| 29 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Caliph | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 Caliph | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tributary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | I | the compact | tributary parataxis | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent compact=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | participle | the compact not said here | with Taric ben | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | place | infinitive · passive | my nephews | dominion | over Spain | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dominion=Destination |
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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