Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 94
Having succeeded in subduing this rich and fruitful region, and having gained great renown for his generosity as well as valour, Abdalasis returned with the chief part of his army to the city of Seville.
Who acts: Abdalasis, gained great renown · What happens: have, succeed, subdue, gain, return · To what, where: gained great renown, rich region
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, gained great renown), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 returned | advcl |
| 2 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 subduing | mark |
| 4 | subduing | subdue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 succeeded | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 region | det |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 region | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fruitful | cc |
| 8 | fruitful | fruitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rich | conj |
| 9 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 subduing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 renown | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 renown | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 renown | aux |
| 13 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 renown | amod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 renown | amod |
| 15 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 generosity | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 generosity | nmod:poss |
| 18 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 renown | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 22 valour | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 renown | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 24 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 part | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 28 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 army | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 army | nmod:poss |
| 32 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 city | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 army | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Seville | case |
| 37 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 city | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Abdalasis not said here | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed | participle | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | subdue | gerund | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour not said here | this rich region | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient | ||||
| 4 | gain | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | return | past | Abdalasis | with the chief part of Abdalasis's army to the city of Seville | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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