Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 34
Wherever he went his arms were victorious; and his victories were always characterised by the same magnanimity.
Who acts: son, arms, same magnanimity · What happens: go, be, characteris · To what, where: victories
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 (son, arms, same magnanimity), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 victorious | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 victorious | cop |
| 7 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 characterised | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 victories | nmod:poss |
| 11 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 characterised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 characterised | aux:pass |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 characterised | advmod |
| 14 | characterised | characteris | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 magnanimity | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magnanimity | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 magnanimity | amod |
| 18 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 characterised | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | son | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | son's arms | victorious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | characteris | past · passive | the same magnanimity | son's victories | always property | tree rules |
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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