Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 14
Abdalasis meditated upon this letter; for some part of it seemed to contain a mystery which he could not comprehend.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: meditate, seem, contain, not comprehend · To what, where: mystery
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis), 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 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 meditated | nsubj |
| 2 | meditated | meditate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 letter | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meditated | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 part | nmod |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 meditated | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 contain | mark |
| 14 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mystery | det |
| 16 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contain | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 comprehend | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 comprehend | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 comprehend | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 comprehend | advmod |
| 21 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mystery | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meditated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meditate | past | Abdalasis | upon this letter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | for some part of part | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | contain | to-infinitive | a mystery | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mystery=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not comprehend | could | Abdalasis | a mystery | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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