Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 6
When I return to Egypt, and present myself before the caliph, he will ask me of my services in Spain; what battle I have gained; what town or castle I have taken.
Who acts: I, pause, my · What happens: return, present, ask, battle, gain, town · To what, where: Egypt, myself, me, town, Spain
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 (I, pause, my), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 return | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 return | nsubj |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Egypt | case |
| 5 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 present | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 present | cc |
| 8 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | conj |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 present | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 caliph | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 caliph | det |
| 12 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | aux |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | iobj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 services | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 services | nmod:poss |
| 20 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ask | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Spain | case |
| 22 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 services | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 battle | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 battle | nsubj |
| 25 | battle | battle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ask | conj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 gained | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 gained | aux |
| 28 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 battle | ccomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 town | punct |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 town | nsubj |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | parataxis |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 castle | cc |
| 33 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 town | conj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 taken | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 town | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | I | Egypt | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to egypt=Result | ||||
| 2 | present | infinitive | I not said here | myself | before the caliph | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | future | pause | me | of my services in Spain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | battle | present | what nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | gain | present · perfect | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | town | what nsubj; castle conj | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | take | present · perfect | I | town or castle not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 8 | service | my | Spain | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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