Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 37
Taric was graciously received by the caliph, who asked tidings of his victories.
Who acts: caliph · What happens: receive, ask · To what, where: Taric, tidings
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), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | aux:pass |
| 3 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 4 received | advmod |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 caliph | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 caliph | det |
| 7 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caliph | acl:relcl |
| 11 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 victories | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 victories | nmod:poss |
| 14 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tidings | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | the caliph | Taric | graciously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the caliph | tidings of TARIC's victories | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tiding=Recipient |
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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