Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 26
They took refuge in the Spanish dominions in Africa, where they were received and harboured by Requila, governor of Tangier, out of gratitude for favours which he had received from their late father.
Who acts: Evan · What happens: take, receive, harbour · To what, where: refuge, Spanish dominions, Evan, gratitude
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dominions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dominions | det |
| 6 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dominions | amod |
| 7 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dominions | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 received | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 received | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 received | aux:pass |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dominions | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 harboured | cc |
| 16 | harboured | harbour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 received | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Requila | case |
| 18 | Requila | Requila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 harboured | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 governor | punct |
| 20 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Tangier | case |
| 22 | Tangier | Tangier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 governor | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gratitude | punct |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 gratitude | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gratitude | case |
| 26 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 favours | case |
| 28 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gratitude | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 received | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 received | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 received | aux |
| 32 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 gratitude | acl:relcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 father | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 father | amod |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 received | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Evan | refuge | the Spanish dominions in Africa | governor of Tangier obl; gratitude for favours parataxis | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in dominion=Location | ||
| 2 | receive | past · passive | Evan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | harbour | participle | by Requila | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | receive | past · perfect · passive | gratitude for favours | from Evan's late father; Roderick nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from father=Source |
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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