Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 17
The caliph examined the table, which was composed of a single emerald, and he found that one foot was supplied by a foot of gold.
Who acts: caliph, foot · What happens: examine, compose, find, supply · To what, where: table, one foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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, foot), 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 | 3 examined | nsubj |
| 3 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 table | det |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 examined | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 composed | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 composed | aux:pass |
| 9 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 table | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 emerald | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 emerald | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 emerald | amod |
| 13 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 composed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 examined | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 supplied | mark |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 foot | nummod |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 supplied | aux:pass |
| 22 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 found | ccomp |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 foot | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 foot | det |
| 25 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 supplied | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gold | case |
| 27 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 foot | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | the caliph | the table | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compose | past · passive | the table | of a single emerald | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | past | CALIPH | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | supply | past · passive | a foot of gold | one foot | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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