Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 38
When Taric was thus in possession of the city, the Jews came to him in procession, with songs and dances, and the sound of timbrel and psaltry, hailing him as their lord, and reminding him of his promises.
Who acts: Taric, Jews · What happens: be, come, hail, remind, possess, promise · To what, where: sound, Taric, possession, city
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, Jews), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thus | advmod |
| 2 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thus | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thus | cop |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 possession | case |
| 6 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possession | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 possession | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Jews | det |
| 12 | Jews | Jew | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 procession | case |
| 17 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 songs | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 songs | case |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dances | cc |
| 22 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 songs | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sound | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sound | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sound | det |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 timbrel | case |
| 28 | timbrel | timbrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sound | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 psaltry | cc |
| 30 | psaltry | psaltry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 timbrel | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hailing | punct |
| 32 | hailing | hail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hailing | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 lord | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 lord | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hailing | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 reminding | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 reminding | cc |
| 39 | reminding | remind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 hailing | advcl |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 reminding | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 promises | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 promises | nmod:poss |
| 43 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 reminding | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Taric | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Jews | the sound of timbrel and psaltry | Taric | possession of the city | in procession; with songs and dances | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |
| 3 | hail | gerund | the Jews not said here | Taric | as JEWS's lord | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as lord=Attribute | |||
| 4 | remind speech: other | gerund | the Jews not said here | Taric | of Taric's promises | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of promise=Topic | |||
| 5 | possess | the city | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | promise | Taric | nom promise «communication 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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