Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 77
Then Theodomir took a flag of truce in his hand, and put a herald’s tabard on the page, and they two sallied forth to capitulate, and were graciously received by Abdalasis.
Who acts: Theodomir, hands, Abdalasis · What happens: take, put, sally, capitulate, receive · To what, where: flag, hand, tabard, page
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 (Theodomir, hands, Abdalasis), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flag | det |
| 5 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 truce | case |
| 7 | truce | truce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flag | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 herald | det |
| 15 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tabard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 herald | case |
| 17 | tabard | tabard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 page | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 page | det |
| 20 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sallied | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sallied | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sallied | nsubj |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 they | appos |
| 25 | sallied | sally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 sallied | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 capitulate | mark |
| 28 | capitulate | capitulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sallied | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 received | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 received | cc |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 received | aux:pass |
| 32 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 33 received | advmod |
| 33 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | parataxis |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 Abdalasis | case |
| 35 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 received | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Theodomir | a flag of truce | Theodomir's hand | then | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flag=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Theodomir not said here | a herald's tabard | the page | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tabard=Theme on page=Destination | |||
| 3 | sally | past | hands = hand | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | capitulate | to-infinitive | hands = hand not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | receive | past · passive | Abdalasis | graciously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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