Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 80
Promise that the inhabitants shall be at liberty to depart unmolested with their property, and the city will be delivered up to you to-morrow morning without a blow; otherwise we are prepared to fight until not a man be left.”
Who acts: that · What happens: be, depart, deliver up, prepare, fight, leave · To what, where: liberty, city, you, we, Promise
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 (that), 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 | Promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 liberty | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 inhabitants | det |
| 4 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 liberty | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 liberty | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liberty | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 liberty | case |
| 8 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Promise | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 depart | mark |
| 10 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liberty | acl |
| 11 | unmolested | unmolested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 depart | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 property | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 property | nmod:poss |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unmolested | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delivered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delivered | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 delivered | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 delivered | aux:pass |
| 21 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 liberty | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 delivered | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 delivered | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 morning | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 morning | compound |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivered | obl |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 blow | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 blow | det |
| 31 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delivered | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 prepared | punct |
| 33 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 36 prepared | advmod |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 prepared | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 prepared | aux:pass |
| 36 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 delivered | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 fight | mark |
| 38 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 prepared | xcomp |
| 39 | until | until | ADP | _ | 42 man | case |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 man | advmod |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 man | det |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fight | obl |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 left | aux:pass |
| 44 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 fight | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 delivered | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 liberty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | that | liberty | the inhabitants nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | depart | to-infinitive | unmolested property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deliver up | future · passive | the city | you | morning | without a blow | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to you=Destination | ||
| 4 | prepare | present · passive | we | otherwise property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | until a man | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive · passive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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