Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 46
Instructed by this traitor, the Arab commander caused ten thousand foot soldiers and four thousand horsemen, commanded by a valiant captain, named Ibrahim Albuxarra, to be conveyed by sea to the little port of Adra, at the Mediterranean foot of the mountains.
Who acts: Arab commander, sea · What happens: instruct, cause, command, name, convey · To what, where: thousand foot soldiers, valiant captain, little port, Mediterranean foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Arab commander, sea), 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 | Instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 traitor | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 traitor | det |
| 4 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Instructed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 commander | det |
| 7 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 commander | amod |
| 8 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traitor | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thousand | compound |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 soldiers | nummod |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soldiers | compound |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caused | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 horsemen | cc |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 thousand | compound |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 horsemen | nummod |
| 17 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soldiers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commanded | punct |
| 19 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 soldiers | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 captain | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 captain | det |
| 22 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 captain | amod |
| 23 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commanded | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 named | punct |
| 25 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 captain | acl |
| 26 | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 named | xcomp |
| 27 | Albuxarra | Albuxarra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ibrahim | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conveyed | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 conveyed | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 conveyed | aux:pass |
| 31 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 captain | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 sea | case |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conveyed | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 port | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 port | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 port | amod |
| 37 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conveyed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Adra | case |
| 39 | Adra | Adra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 port | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 foot | punct |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 foot | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 foot | det |
| 43 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 foot | compound |
| 44 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conveyed | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 mountains | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 mountains | det |
| 47 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 foot | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | participle | by this traitor | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | the Arab commander | thousand foot soldiers and thousand horsemen | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition soldier=Patient | ||||
| 3 | command | participle | thousand foot soldiers and thousand horsemen not said here | by a valiant captain | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by captain=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a valiant captain not said here | Ibrahim xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | convey | to-infinitive · passive | sea | the little port of Adra | the Mediterranean foot of the mountains | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to port=Recipient |
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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