Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 55
Should they prefer to leave the country and remove to any part of Christendom, they were to be allowed to sell their possessions; and to take with them the money, and all their other effects.
Who acts: conditions · What happens: prefer, leave, remove, allow, sell, take · To what, where: country, part, conditions, possessions, money
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 (conditions), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prefer | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prefer | nsubj |
| 3 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prefer | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remove | cc |
| 9 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remove | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Christendom | case |
| 14 | Christendom | Christendom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowed | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 allowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 allowed | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | aux:pass |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 remove | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sell | mark |
| 22 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sell | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prefer | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 money | det |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 effects | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 effects | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 effects | det:predet |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 effects | nmod:poss |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 effects | amod |
| 38 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prefer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | should | conditions = condition | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | conditions = condition not said here | the country | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remove | infinitive | conditions = condition not said here | any part of Christendom | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to part=Destination | ||||
| 4 | allow | past · passive | conditions = condition | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | conditions = condition not said here | conditions's possessions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | conditions = condition not said here | the money | with conditions = condition; conditions's other effects obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 7 | possess | conditions = condition | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | effect | conditions = condition | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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