Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 32
Nay, he even sought to gain the sanction of the church to his excesses; promulgating a law by which the clergy were released from their vows of celibacy, and permitted to marry and to entertain paramours.
Who acts: Mahomet, clergy · What happens: seek, gain, promulgate, release, permit, marry · To what, where: sanction, law, clergy, vows, paramours, church
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 (Mahomet, clergy), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 sought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 sought | advmod |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 gain | mark |
| 7 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sought | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sanction | det |
| 9 | sanction | sanction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gain | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 church | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 church | det |
| 12 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sanction | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 excesses | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 excesses | nmod:poss |
| 15 | excesses | excess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 church | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 promulgating | punct |
| 17 | promulgating | promulgate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sought | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 law | det |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 promulgating | obj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 released | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clergy | det |
| 23 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 released | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 released | aux:pass |
| 25 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 promulgating | parataxis |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 vows | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 vows | nmod:poss |
| 28 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 released | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 celibacy | case |
| 30 | celibacy | celibacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 vows | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 permitted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 permitted | cc |
| 33 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 released | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 marry | mark |
| 35 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 permitted | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 entertain | cc |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 entertain | mark |
| 38 | entertain | entertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 marry | conj |
| 39 | paramours | paramour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 entertain | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Mahomet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gain not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mahomet not said here | the sanction of the church to Mahomet's excesses | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sanction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promulgate speech: other | gerund | a law | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent law=Topic | |||||
| 4 | release | past · passive | the clergy | clergy's vows of celibacy | which obl | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | |||
| 5 | permit | participle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | entertain | to-infinitive | paramours | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus paramour=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | sanction | the church to Mahomet's excesses | nom sanction «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | vow | clergy | celibacy | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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