Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 14
Their choice was made from among the people, subject only to one condition, that the king should be of pure Gothic blood.
Who acts: people, king · What happens: make, subject, be · To what, where: choice
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 (people, king), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 choice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 subject | punct |
| 10 | subject | subject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 condition | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 condition | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 condition | nummod |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subject | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blood | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 blood | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blood | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 blood | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 blood | cop |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 22 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blood | amod |
| 23 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blood | amod |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 subject | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the people | nobles's choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | subject | present | the people not said here | to one condition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | should | the king | of pure Gothic blood | tree rules |
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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