Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 1
The terror of the arms of Taric ben Zeyad went before him; and, at the same time, the report of his lenity to those who submitted without resistance.
Who acts: terror · What happens: go, submit, report · To what, where: lenity
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror), 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 terror | det |
| 2 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arms | det |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 terror | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ben | case |
| 7 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ben | compound |
| 8 | ben | ben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arms | nmod |
| 9 | Zeyad | Zeyad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ben | appos |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 time | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 time | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 report | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 report | det |
| 22 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lenity | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lenity | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lenity | lenity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 report | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 those | case |
| 27 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 time | nmod |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 submitted | nsubj |
| 29 | submitted | submit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 those | acl:relcl |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 resistance | case |
| 31 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 submitted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the terror of the arms of Taric ben | before Zeyad; time | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | submit | past | without resistance; who nsubj | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | report | terror's lenity | nom report «communication transitive»: 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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