Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 17
The Arab leader received it as the head of the unfortunate Roderick, and sent it, as a trophy of his victory, to Muza ben Nosier, who, in like manner, transmitted it to the caliph at Damascus.
Who acts: Arab leader · What happens: receive, send, transmit · To what, where: head, Muza ben, caliph
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab leader), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 leader | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 leader | amod |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 received | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Roderick | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Roderick | det |
| 11 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Roderick | amod |
| 12 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trophy | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 trophy | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 trophy | det |
| 20 | trophy | trophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 victory | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 victory | nmod:poss |
| 23 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trophy | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ben | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ben | case |
| 26 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ben | compound |
| 27 | ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 28 | Nosier | Nosier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ben | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 manner | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 manner | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 manner | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 manner | case |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 manner | case |
| 34 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ben | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 transmitted | punct |
| 36 | transmitted | transmit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 transmitted | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 caliph | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 caliph | det |
| 40 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 transmitted | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 Damascus | case |
| 42 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 caliph | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Arab leader | head | as the head of the unfortunate Roderick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | head | Muza ben and manner Muza ben and manner Muza ben | as a trophy of Roderick's victory | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ben=Destination | |||
| 3 | transmit | past | head | the caliph at Damascus | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to caliph=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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