Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 48
Another was sent against the city of Malaga, and was led by Zayd ben Kesadi, aided by the Bishop Oppas.
Who acts: Zayd ben · What happens: send, lead, aid · To what, where: Another
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 (Zayd ben), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Malaga | case |
| 8 | Malaga | Malaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 led | aux:pass |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 ben | case |
| 14 | Zayd | Zayd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ben | compound |
| 15 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 led | obl |
| 16 | Kesadi | Kesadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ben | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 aided | punct |
| 18 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 led | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Oppas | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Oppas | det |
| 21 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Oppas | compound |
| 22 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 aided | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Another | against the city of Malaga | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | Zayd ben | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | aid | participle | Zayd ben not said here | by the Bishop Oppas | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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