Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 13
The crown was elective, in a council of palatines, composed of the bishops and nobles: who, while they swore allegiance to the newly-made sovereign, bound him by a reciprocal oath to be faithful to his trust.
Who acts: crown, sceptre · What happens: be, compose, swear, make, bound, trust · To what, where: council, allegiance, sceptre
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, sceptre), 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 | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elective | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 elective | cop |
| 4 | elective | elective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 council | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 council | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 council | det |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 elective | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palatines | case |
| 10 | palatines | palatine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 council | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 composed | punct |
| 12 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 elective | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bishops | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bishops | det |
| 15 | bishops | bishop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 composed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nobles | cc |
| 17 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bishops | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 swore | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 swore | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swore | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 swore | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 swore | nsubj |
| 23 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 elective | parataxis |
| 24 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swore | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sovereign | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sovereign | det |
| 27 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 29 made | advmod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 newly | punct |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 sovereign | amod |
| 30 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 swore | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bound | punct |
| 32 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 swore | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bound | obj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 oath | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 oath | det |
| 36 | reciprocal | reciprocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 oath | amod |
| 37 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bound | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 faithful | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 faithful | cop |
| 40 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bound | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 trust | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 trust | nmod:poss |
| 43 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 faithful | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 elective | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crown | a council of palatines | elective property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | compose | participle | of the bishops and nobles | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swear | past | allegiance | to the made sovereign; who nsubj; nobles = noble nsubj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent allegiance=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | newly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | bound | infinitive | sceptre | by a reciprocal oath | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | to sceptre's trust; faithful property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | trust | sceptre | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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.
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