Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 92
Upon this the Bishop Oppas and Count Julian exclaimed that the capitulation was a base fraud, and ought not to be complied with; but Abdalasis relished the stratagem of the old soldier, and ordered that the stipulations of the treaty should be faithfully performed.
Who acts: you, Julian, capitulation, Abdalasis · What happens: count, exclaim, be, not comply, relish, order · To what, where: base fraud, stratagem, stipulations, treaty · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Julian, capitulation, Abdalasis), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 Oppas | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Oppas | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Oppas | det |
| 4 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Oppas | compound |
| 5 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Count | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Count | cc |
| 7 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Count | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fraud | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 capitulation | det |
| 12 | capitulation | capitulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fraud | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fraud | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fraud | det |
| 15 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fraud | compound |
| 16 | fraud | fraud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 complied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 complied | cc |
| 19 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 complied | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 complied | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 complied | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 complied | aux:pass |
| 23 | complied | comply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 complied | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 relished | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 relished | cc |
| 27 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 relished | nsubj |
| 28 | relished | relish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stratagem | det |
| 30 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 relished | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 soldier | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 soldier | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 soldier | amod |
| 34 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stratagem | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ordered | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ordered | cc |
| 37 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 relished | advcl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 performed | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stipulations | det |
| 40 | stipulations | stipulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 treaty | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 treaty | det |
| 43 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stipulations | nmod |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 performed | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 performed | aux:pass |
| 46 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 47 performed | advmod |
| 47 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 ordered | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | upon the Bishop Oppas this | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Julian | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the capitulation | a base fraud | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not comply | ought · passive | Julian not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | relish | past | Abdalasis | the stratagem of the old soldier | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stratagem=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | order | past | Abdalasis not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | perform | should · passive | the stipulations of the treaty | faithfully property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stipulate | the treaty | nom stipulation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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