Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 22
He took with him Count Julian, Magued el Rumi, and the Bishop Oppas, that he might benefit by their knowledge of the country.
Who acts: Abdalasis, Bishop Oppas · What happens: take, count, benefit · To what, where: Julian
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 (Abdalasis, Bishop Oppas), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 5 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | xcomp |
| 6 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Count | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 el | punct |
| 8 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 el | compound |
| 9 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Julian | conj |
| 10 | Rumi | Rumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 el | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 benefit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 benefit | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Oppas | det |
| 14 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Oppas | compound |
| 15 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 benefit | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 benefit | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 benefit | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 benefit | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 benefit | aux |
| 20 | benefit | benefit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 knowledge | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 benefit | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knowledge | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Abdalasis | with Spain | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | count | infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | Julian and Magued el | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme | ||||
| 3 | benefit | might | the Bishop Oppas | by Julian's knowledge of the country; Abdalasis nsubj | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by knowledge=Causer |
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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