Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 13
The inhabitants were to retain their property, their laws, and their religion; their churches and priests were to be respected; and no other tribute was required of them than such as they had been accustomed to pay to their Gothic kings.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: retain, respect, require, accustom, pay · To what, where: property, churches, other tribute
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 (inhabitants), 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 inhabitants | det |
| 2 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 retain | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 retain | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 retain | mark |
| 5 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 property | nmod:poss |
| 7 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 retain | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laws | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 laws | nmod:poss |
| 10 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 property | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 religion | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 religion | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 religion | nmod:poss |
| 14 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 property | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 respected | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 churches | nmod:poss |
| 17 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 respected | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 priests | cc |
| 19 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 churches | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 respected | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 respected | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 respected | aux:pass |
| 23 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 retain | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 required | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 required | cc |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 tribute | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tribute | amod |
| 28 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 required | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 required | aux:pass |
| 30 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 retain | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 required | obl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 such | case |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 required | obl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 accustomed | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 accustomed | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 39 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 required | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 pay | mark |
| 41 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 accustomed | xcomp |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 kings | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 kings | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 kings | amod |
| 45 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 pay | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 retain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | past | the inhabitants | inhabitants's property and inhabitants's laws and inhabitants's religion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | respect | past · passive | inhabitants's churches and priests | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | require | past · passive | no other tribute | of inhabitants = inhabitant; than such | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | churches = church | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pay | to-infinitive | to inhabitants's Gothic kings | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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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