Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 27
He divided the command between his sons Abdelola and Meruan, leaving the former in Tangier, and the latter in Cairvan.
Who acts: Cadiz · What happens: divide, leave · To what, where: command, former, Tangier
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 (Cadiz), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 command | det |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 divided | obj |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 sons | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 command | nmod |
| 8 | Abdelola | Abdelola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sons | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Meruan | cc |
| 10 | Meruan | Meruan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Abdelola | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 divided | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 former | det |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 leaving | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Tangier | case |
| 16 | Tangier | Tangier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 leaving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 latter | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 latter | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 latter | det |
| 20 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 divided | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Cairvan | case |
| 22 | Cairvan | Cairvan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 latter | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | Cadiz | the command | between Cadiz's sons | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | Cadiz not said here | the former | Tangier | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent former=Theme in tangier=Location |
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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