Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 11
The caliph was at length wearied out by these complaints, and feared that the safety of the cause might be endangered by the dissensions of the rival generals.
Who acts: caliph, dissensions, rival generals · What happens: be, weary out, fear, endanger, dissent · To what, where: length, safety · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (caliph, dissensions, rival generals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 caliph | det |
| 2 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 length | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 length | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 length | case |
| 5 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 length | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 wearied | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 complaints | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 complaints | det |
| 10 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wearied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feared | cc |
| 13 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 length | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 endangered | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 safety | det |
| 16 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 endangered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cause | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cause | det |
| 19 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 safety | nmod |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 endangered | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 endangered | aux:pass |
| 22 | endangered | endanger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feared | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 dissensions | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dissensions | det |
| 25 | dissensions | dissension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 endangered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 generals | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 generals | det |
| 28 | rival | rival | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 generals | amod |
| 29 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dissensions | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 length | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the caliph | length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weary out | participle | length not said here | by this complaints | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | endanger | might · passive | the dissensions of the rival generals | the safety of the cause | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dissent | the rival generals | nom dissension «communication intransitive»: of=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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