Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 1
FEUD BETWEEN THE ARAB GENERALS.—THEY ARE SUMMONED TO APPEAR BEFORE THE CALIPH AT DAMASCUS.—RECEPTION OF TARIC.
What happens: summon, appear, receive · To what, where: GENERALS, DAMASCUS, TARIC
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | FEUD | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 GENERALS | nsubj |
| 2 | BETWEEN | between | ADP | _ | 5 GENERALS | case |
| 3 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 GENERALS | det |
| 4 | ARAB | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 GENERALS | amod |
| 5 | GENERALS | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 GENERALS | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 SUMMONED | punct |
| 8 | THEY | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 SUMMONED | nsubj |
| 9 | ARE | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 SUMMONED | aux:pass |
| 10 | SUMMONED | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 GENERALS | acl |
| 11 | TO | to | PART | _ | 12 APPEAR | mark |
| 12 | APPEAR | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 SUMMONED | xcomp |
| 13 | BEFORE | before | ADP | _ | 15 CALIPH | case |
| 14 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 CALIPH | det |
| 15 | CALIPH | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 APPEAR | obl |
| 16 | AT | at | ADP | _ | 17 DAMASCUS | case |
| 17 | DAMASCUS | DAMASCUS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 APPEAR | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 SUMMONED | punct |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 RECEPTION | punct |
| 20 | RECEPTION | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 GENERALS | conj |
| 21 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 22 TARIC | case |
| 22 | TARIC | TARIC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 RECEPTION | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 GENERALS | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | present · passive | GENERALS = general | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | DAMASCUS | before the CALIPH | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before caliph=Location | ||||
| 4 | receive | TARIC | nom reception «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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