Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 38
So saying, he appointed his own brother Oppas, at that time Archbishop of Seville, to take a seat with Sindaredo in the episcopal chair of Toledo, and made him Primate of Spain.
Who acts: Witiza · What happens: say, appoint, take, make · To what, where: own brother, seat, episcopal chair, Primate, Witiza · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Witiza), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 appointed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appointed | nsubj |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obj |
| 9 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Archbishop | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Archbishop | obl |
| 14 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Seville | case |
| 16 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Archbishop | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 seat | det |
| 21 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Sindaredo | case |
| 23 | Sindaredo | Sindaredo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 chair | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 chair | det |
| 26 | episcopal | episcopal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 chair | amod |
| 27 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Toledo | case |
| 29 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 chair | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | obj |
| 34 | Primate | Primate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Spain | case |
| 36 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Primate | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Witiza not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appoint | past | Witiza | Witiza's own brother | Archbishop at that time of Seville obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | a seat | the episcopal chair of Toledo | with Sindaredo | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in chair=Location | |||
| 4 | make | past | Witiza not said here | Primate of Spain | Witiza | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary primate=Product |
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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