Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 1
HOW TARIC EL TUERTO CAPTURED THE CITY OF TOLEDO THROUGH THE AID OF THE JEWS, AND HOW HE FOUND THE FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE OF SOLOMON.
Who acts: TARIC EL, EL · What happens: capture, find · To what, where: CITY, AID, FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TARIC EL, EL), 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 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 CAPTURED | advmod |
| 2 | TARIC | TARIC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 EL | compound |
| 3 | EL | EL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 CAPTURED | nsubj |
| 4 | TUERTO | TUERTO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 EL | flat |
| 5 | CAPTURED | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 CITY | det |
| 7 | CITY | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 CAPTURED | obj |
| 8 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 9 TOLEDO | case |
| 9 | TOLEDO | TOLEDO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 CITY | nmod |
| 10 | THROUGH | through | ADP | _ | 12 AID | case |
| 11 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 AID | det |
| 12 | AID | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 CAPTURED | obl |
| 13 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 15 JEWS | case |
| 14 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 JEWS | det |
| 15 | JEWS | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 AID | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 FOUND | punct |
| 17 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 FOUND | cc |
| 18 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 FOUND | advmod |
| 19 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 FOUND | nsubj |
| 20 | FOUND | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 CAPTURED | conj |
| 21 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 TABLE | det |
| 22 | FAMOUS | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 TABLE | amod |
| 23 | TALISMANIC | talismanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 TABLE | amod |
| 24 | TABLE | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 FOUND | obj |
| 25 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 26 SOLOMON | case |
| 26 | SOLOMON | solomon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 TABLE | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 CAPTURED | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | TARIC EL | the CITY of TOLEDO | the AID of the JEWS | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | EL | the FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE of SOLOMON | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |
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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