Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 34
The new caliph lent a willing ear to the accusation, and commanded him to render up all that he had pillaged from Spain.
Who acts: new caliph, CALIPH · What happens: lend, command, render up, pillage · To what, where: willing ear, accusation, CALIPH, Spain · 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 (new caliph, 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 | 3 caliph | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caliph | amod |
| 3 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lent | nsubj |
| 4 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ear | det |
| 6 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ear | amod |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 accusation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 accusation | det |
| 10 | accusation | accusation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commanded | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 commanded | cc |
| 13 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lent | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 commanded | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 render | mark |
| 16 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 commanded | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 render | compound:prt |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 pillaged | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 pillaged | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pillaged | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pillaged | aux |
| 22 | pillaged | pillage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 render | advcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 Spain | case |
| 24 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pillaged | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past | the new caliph | a willing ear | the accusation | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to accusation=Recipient | |||
| 2 | command | past | the new caliph not said here | CALIPH | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | render up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the new caliph not said here | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pillage | past · perfect | CALIPH | Spain | tree rules |
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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