Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 2
Shortly after the arrival of Taric el Tuerto at Damascus the caliph fell dangerously ill, insomuch that his life was despaired of.
Who acts: caliph, insomuch, Taric el · What happens: fall, despair, arrive · To what, where: insomuch, life
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, insomuch, Taric el), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 arrival | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrival | det |
| 4 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 el | case |
| 6 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 el | compound |
| 7 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrival | nmod |
| 8 | Tuerto | Tuerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 el | flat |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Damascus | case |
| 10 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 el | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 caliph | det |
| 12 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | dangerously | dangerously | ADV | _ | 15 ill | advmod |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 insomuch | punct |
| 17 | insomuch | insomuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 despaired | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 despaired | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 despaired | aux:pass |
| 22 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 insomuch | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 despaired | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the caliph | insomuch | after the arrival of Taric el at Damascus | ill, shortly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | despair | past · passive | insomuch not said here | CALIPH's life | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | Taric el at Damascus | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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