Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 42
The Jews had been banished from the country during the preceding reign, but Witiza permitted them to return, and even bestowed upon their synagogues privileges of which he had despoiled the churches.
Who acts: Witiza · What happens: banish, precede, permit, return, bestow, despoil · To what, where: Jews, country, churches
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jews | det |
| 2 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 banished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 banished | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 banished | aux:pass |
| 5 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 banished | obl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 reign | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reign | det |
| 11 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 reign | amod |
| 12 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 banished | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 permitted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 permitted | cc |
| 15 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 permitted | nsubj |
| 16 | permitted | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 banished | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 permitted | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 permitted | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bestowed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bestowed | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 bestowed | advmod |
| 23 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 permitted | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 privileges | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 synagogues | nmod:poss |
| 26 | synagogues | synagogue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 privileges | compound |
| 27 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bestowed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 despoiled | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 despoiled | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 despoiled | aux |
| 32 | despoiled | despoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 privileges | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 churches | det |
| 34 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 despoiled | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | past · perfect · passive | the Jews | the country | during the preceding reign | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source | |||
| 2 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | permit | past | Witiza | Jews = jew | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Witiza not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bestow | participle | Witiza not said here | upon synagogues privileges | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | despoil | past · perfect | Witiza | the churches | of synagogues privileges | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent church=Source of which=Theme |
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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