Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 81
Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy terms, but stipulated that the garrison should lay down their arms.
Who acts: Abdalasis, garrison · What happens: be, get, stipulate, lay down · To what, where: powerful place, arms
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 (Abdalasis, garrison), 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 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | cop |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleased | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 terms | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 terms | amod |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 terms | amod |
| 14 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 place | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stipulated | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 stipulated | cc |
| 17 | stipulated | stipulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleased | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 lay | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garrison | det |
| 20 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 lay | aux |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stipulated | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 lay | compound:prt |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lay | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abdalasis | pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | a powerful place | upon such easy terms | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stipulate | past | Abdalasis not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lay down | should | the garrison | terms's arms | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Result |
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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