Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 24
His troops, however, regarded it with wrathful eyes, thinking only of its rebellion and of the massacre of their countrymen in the alcazar.
Who acts: troops, Guadalquivir · What happens: regard, think, rebel, massacre · To what, where: Guadalquivir, countrymen
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 (troops, Guadalquivir), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 troops | nmod:poss |
| 2 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 regarded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 troops | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 regarded | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 regarded | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 regarded | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinking | punct |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 regarded | advcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 rebellion | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rebellion | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rebellion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinking | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 massacre | cc |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 massacre | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 massacre | det |
| 20 | massacre | massacre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rebellion | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 countrymen | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 23 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 massacre | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 alcazar | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 alcazar | det |
| 26 | alcazar | alcazar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 countrymen | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past | Oppas's troops | Guadalquivir | with wrathful eyes; however property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Oppas's troops not said here | of Guadalquivir's rebellion and the massacre of troops's countrymen in the alcazar | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rebel | Guadalquivir | nom rebellion «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | massacre | troops's countrymen in the alcazar | nom massacre «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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