Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 91
With these women did I man my walls; and this, my page, is my herald, guard, and retinue.”
Who acts: women, page, my · What happens: do, be, page · To what, where: man, herald
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 (women, page, my), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 walls | nmod:poss |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 man | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 herald | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 herald | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 page | det |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 page | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 page | nmod:poss |
| 14 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 herald | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 page | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 herald | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 herald | nmod:poss |
| 18 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guard | punct |
| 20 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 herald | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retinue | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retinue | cc |
| 23 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 herald | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 retinue | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 retinue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this women | man and my walls | I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | my page | my herald and guard | my nmod:poss; guard conj; retinue appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | page | my | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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