Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 39
The advice of Julian was applauded by all the Arab chieftains, who were impatient of any interruption in their career of conquest.
Who acts: Arab chieftains · What happens: applaud, be · To what, where: advice
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab chieftains), 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 advice | det |
| 2 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 applauded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Julian | case |
| 4 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 advice | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 applauded | aux:pass |
| 6 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 chieftains | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 chieftains | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chieftains | det |
| 10 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chieftains | amod |
| 11 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 applauded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 impatient | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 impatient | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 impatient | cop |
| 15 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chieftains | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 interruption | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 interruption | det |
| 18 | interruption | interruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 impatient | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 career | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 career | nmod:poss |
| 21 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 interruption | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 conquest | case |
| 23 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 career | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 applauded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | applaud | past · passive | all Arab chieftains | the advice of Julian | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all Arab chieftains | of any interruption in chieftains's career of conquest; impatient property | 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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