Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 3
While they talked with ardour and exultation, Abdalasis, the son of Muza, alone kept silence, and sat with a dejected countenance.
Who acts: triumphs · What happens: talk, keep, sit, deject · To what, where: silence
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 (triumphs), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 talked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 ardour | case |
| 5 | ardour | ardour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exultation | cc |
| 7 | exultation | exultation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ardour | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Abdalasis | punct |
| 9 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ardour | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Abdalasis | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Muza | case |
| 14 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 kept | advmod |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 talked | parataxis |
| 18 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 talked | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 countenance | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 countenance | det |
| 24 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 countenance | amod |
| 25 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | triumphs = triumph | with ardour and exultation | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ardour=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | silence | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | triumphs = triumph not said here | with a dejected countenance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | deject | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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