Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 52
The caliph was well pleased with the martial bluntness of the veteran, and showed him great honour; and wherever Taric appeared he was the idol of the populace.
Who acts: caliph, Taric · What happens: be, show, appear · To what, where: great honour, CALIPH, idol
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, Taric), 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 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bluntness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bluntness | det |
| 8 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bluntness | amod |
| 9 | bluntness | bluntness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 veteran | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 veteran | det |
| 12 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bluntness | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 showed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 showed | cc |
| 15 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 showed | iobj |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 honour | amod |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 showed | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 appeared | cc |
| 21 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 appeared | advmod |
| 22 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 idol | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 idol | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 idol | det |
| 27 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appeared | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 populace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 populace | det |
| 30 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 idol | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the caliph | with the martial bluntness of the veteran; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the caliph not said here | great honour | CALIPH | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient honour=Topic | |||
| 3 | appear | past | Taric | wherever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | TARIC | the idol | of the populace | tree rules |
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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