Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 1
Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting easy and frequent communications with the coast of Africa.
What happens: fix, permit · To what, where: Abdalasis, Seville, easy communications
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixed | aux |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 seat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 government | case |
| 7 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seat | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Seville | case |
| 9 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 permitting | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 permitting | mark |
| 12 | permitting | permit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fixed | advcl |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 communications | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 frequent | cc |
| 15 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 easy | conj |
| 16 | communications | communication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 permitting | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 coast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coast | det |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 permitting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Africa | case |
| 21 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 coast | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past · perfect · passive | Abdalasis | Seville | Abdalasis's seat of government obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary seat=Product | |||
| 2 | permit | gerund | easy communications | with the coast of Africa | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communication=Theme |
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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