Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 31
In a few days the Caliph Walid died, and was succeeded by his brother Suleiman.
Who acts: Caliph Walid, brother · What happens: die, succeed
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 Walid, brother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 died | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Walid | det |
| 6 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Walid | compound |
| 7 | Walid | Walid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 succeeded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 succeeded | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 succeeded | aux:pass |
| 12 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 died | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeded | obl |
| 16 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the Caliph Walid | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past · passive | Walid's brother | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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