Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 85
Abdalasis was pleased with the hardihood of the commander of the place in thus venturing personally into his power, and entertained the veteran with still greater honour.
Who acts: Abdalasis, place · What happens: be, venture in, entertain · To what, where: power, veteran
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, place), 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 | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 hardihood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hardihood | det |
| 6 | hardihood | hardihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleased | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 commander | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 commander | det |
| 9 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hardihood | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commander | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 venturing | compound:prt |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 venturing | advmod |
| 15 | venturing | venture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | personally | personally | ADV | _ | 19 power | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 power | nmod:poss |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 venturing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 entertained | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entertained | cc |
| 22 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 veteran | det |
| 24 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entertained | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 honour | case |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 greater | advmod |
| 27 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 honour | amod |
| 28 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entertained | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abdalasis | with the hardihood of the commander of the place; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | venture in | gerund | the place not said here | Abdalasis's power | thus property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | entertain | past | Abdalasis not said here | the veteran | with greater honour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus veteran=Experiencer |
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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