Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 28
Their uncle Oppas, bishop of Seville, who had been made co-partner, by Witiza, in the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo, would have likewise fallen under the suspicion of the king; but he was a man of consummate art and vast exterior sanctity, and won upon the good graces of the monarch.
Who acts: Witiza, uncle · What happens: make, fall, be, win, suspect · To what, where: bishop, suspicion, man, king
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 (Witiza, uncle), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bishop | punct |
| 5 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uncle | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Seville | case |
| 7 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bishop | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bishop | acl |
| 13 | co-partner | co-partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Witiza | punct |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Witiza | case |
| 16 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 chair | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 chair | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chair | det |
| 20 | arch-episcopal | arch-episcopal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chair | amod |
| 21 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 Toledo | case |
| 23 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 chair | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 uncle | punct |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fallen | aux |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 fallen | aux |
| 27 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 28 fallen | advmod |
| 28 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 suspicion | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 suspicion | det |
| 31 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 king | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 suspicion | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 man | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 man | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 man | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 man | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fallen | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 art | case |
| 42 | consummate | consummate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 art | amod |
| 43 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 sanctity | cc |
| 45 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 sanctity | amod |
| 46 | exterior | exterior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 sanctity | amod |
| 47 | sanctity | sanctity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 won | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 won | cc |
| 50 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fallen | parataxis |
| 51 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 54 graces | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 graces | det |
| 53 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 graces | amod |
| 54 | graces | grace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 won | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 monarch | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 monarch | det |
| 57 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 graces | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | Witiza | bishop of Seville | co-partner xcomp; the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo advcl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 2 | fall | would · perfect | Evan's uncle | the suspicion of the king | likewise property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under suspicion=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | uncle | a man and vast exterior sanctity | of consummate art; vast exterior sanctity conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | win | past | upon the good graces of the monarch | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | suspect | the king | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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