Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 16
At that city he called a meeting of his principal officers, and of the leaders of the faction of apostate Christians, and made them all do homage to his son Abdalasis, as emir or governor of Spain.
Who acts: man, Christians · What happens: call, make · To what, where: meeting, Christians · 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 (man, Christians), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 city | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 meeting | det |
| 7 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 officers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 officers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 officers | amod |
| 11 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meeting | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaders | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leaders | cc |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leaders | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaders | det |
| 16 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 faction | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 faction | det |
| 19 | faction | faction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaders | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 apostate | case |
| 21 | apostate | apostate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 faction | nmod |
| 22 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 apostate | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Christians | acl:relcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | xcomp |
| 29 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 son | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | obl |
| 33 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 son | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 emir | punct |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 emir | case |
| 36 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obl |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 governor | cc |
| 38 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 emir | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Spain | case |
| 40 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 governor | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | man | a meeting of man's principal officers | of the leaders of the faction of apostate; at that city | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme at city=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | Christians not said here | Christians = christian | as emir or governor of Spain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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