Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 38
The caliph was still more exasperated at his repining, and stripped him of his commands; confiscated his effects; fined him two hundred thousand pesants of gold, and ordered that he should be scourged and exposed to the noontide sun, and afterwards thrown into prison.
Who acts: CALIPH · What happens: exasperate, strip, confiscate, fine, order, scourge · To what, where: caliph, repining, effects, noontide sun, prison · 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), 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 | 6 exasperated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exasperated | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 exasperated | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 exasperated | advmod |
| 6 | exasperated | exasperate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 repining | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 repining | nmod:poss |
| 9 | repining | repining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exasperated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stripped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stripped | cc |
| 12 | stripped | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exasperated | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stripped | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 commands | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 commands | nmod:poss |
| 16 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stripped | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 confiscated | punct |
| 18 | confiscated | confiscate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 exasperated | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 effects | nmod:poss |
| 20 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 confiscated | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 fined | punct |
| 22 | fined | fine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exasperated | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fined | obj |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hundred | compound |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 thousand | compound |
| 26 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 pesants | nummod |
| 27 | pesants | pesant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fined | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pesants | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ordered | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ordered | cc |
| 32 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fined | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 scourged | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 scourged | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 scourged | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 scourged | aux:pass |
| 37 | scourged | scourge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 ordered | ccomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 exposed | cc |
| 39 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 scourged | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 sun | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sun | det |
| 42 | noontide | noontide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sun | compound |
| 43 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 exposed | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 thrown | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 thrown | cc |
| 46 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 47 thrown | advmod |
| 47 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fined | conj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 prison | case |
| 49 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 thrown | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exasperated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exasperate | past · passive | the caliph | CALIPH's repining | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | strip | past | CALIPH | of CALIPH's commands | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme of command=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | confiscate | participle | CALIPH's effects | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fine | past | CALIPH | thousand pesants of gold obj | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pesant=Asset | ||||
| 5 | order | past | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | scourge | should · passive | CALIPH | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | expose | participle | the noontide sun | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | throw | participle | into prison result; afterwards property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result | |||||
| 9 | command | CALIPH | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | effect | CALIPH | nom effect «phenomenon 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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