Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 28
The caliph, however, was wroth, and heeded not his words.
Who acts: caliph · What happens: be, not heed, word · To what, where: words
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), 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 | 7 wroth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 caliph | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 wroth | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wroth | cop |
| 7 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heeded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heeded | cc |
| 10 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wroth | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 heeded | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heeded | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the caliph | however, wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not heed | past | the caliph not said here | CALIPH's words | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | CALIPH | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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