Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 79
You perceive that the city is capable of withstanding a long siege, but he is desirous of sparing the lives of his soldiers.
Who acts: You, city, Theodomir · What happens: perceive, be, withstand, spare · To what, where: long siege, lives
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 (You, city, Theodomir), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 perceive | nsubj |
| 2 | perceive | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 capable | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capable | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 capable | cop |
| 7 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 perceive | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 withstanding | mark |
| 9 | withstanding | withstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 capable | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 siege | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 siege | amod |
| 12 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 withstanding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desirous | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 desirous | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 desirous | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 desirous | cop |
| 17 | desirous | desirous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 perceive | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 sparing | mark |
| 19 | sparing | spare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 desirous | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lives | det |
| 21 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sparing | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 soldiers | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lives | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | present | You | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the city | capable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | withstand | gerund | the city not said here | a long siege | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Theodomir | desirous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spare | gerund | Theodomir not said here | the lives of Theodomir's soldiers | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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