Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 14
He then presented the spoils of the Christians as if they had been all taken by his own hands; and when he delivered to the caliph the miraculous table of Solomon, he dwelt with animation on the virtues of that inestimable talisman.
Who acts: CALIPH, own hands · What happens: present, spoil, take, deliver, dwell · To what, where: Christians, miraculous table, caliph, virtues
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CALIPH, own hands), 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 | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 presented | advmod |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spoils | det |
| 5 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 presented | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Christians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Christians | det |
| 8 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 spoils | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 taken | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 taken | advmod |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Christians | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hands | amod |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 taken | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 delivered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 delivered | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 delivered | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 delivered | nsubj |
| 24 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 presented | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 caliph | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 caliph | det |
| 27 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 delivered | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 table | det |
| 29 | miraculous | miraculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 table | amod |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 delivered | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Solomon | case |
| 32 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 table | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dwelt | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dwelt | nsubj |
| 35 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 presented | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 animation | case |
| 37 | animation | animation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dwelt | obl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 virtues | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 virtues | det |
| 40 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dwelt | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 talisman | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 talisman | det |
| 43 | inestimable | inestimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 talisman | amod |
| 44 | talisman | talisman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 virtues | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | CALIPH | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spoil | present | CALIPH not said here | of the Christians | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | CALIPH's own hands | Christians = christian | all property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | deliver | past | CALIPH | the miraculous table of Solomon | the caliph | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme to caliph=Destination | |||
| 5 | dwell | past | CALIPH | the virtues of that inestimable talisman | with animation | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on virtue=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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