Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 17
The veteran Muza, now that the siege of Merida was at an end, was meditating the recapture and punishment of Seville at the very time when Abdalasis addressed him.
Who acts: siege, veteran, Abdalasis · What happens: be, meditate, address, punish · To what, where: end, recapture, Seville
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (siege, veteran, Abdalasis), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 veteran | det |
| 2 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meditating | nsubj |
| 3 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 veteran | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 end | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 end | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 siege | det |
| 8 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Merida | case |
| 10 | Merida | Merida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 siege | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Muza | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 veteran | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 meditating | aux |
| 17 | meditating | meditate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 recapture | det |
| 19 | recapture | recapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meditating | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 punishment | cc |
| 21 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recapture | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Seville | case |
| 23 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 punishment | nmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 time | advmod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meditating | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 addressed | advmod |
| 29 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 addressed | nsubj |
| 30 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 meditating | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 addressed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 meditating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the siege of Merida | at a end; now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meditate | past · progressive | the veteran | the recapture and punishment of Seville | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | address | past | Abdalasis | Seville | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | punish | Seville | nom punishment «act 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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