Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 11
Abdalasis found her one day in the garden with her companions: they had adorned their heads with flowers, and were singing the songs of their country; but she sat by herself and wept.
Who acts: Abdalasis, companions, Lusitania, country · What happens: find, adorn, sing, sit, weep · To what, where: Lusitania, garden, heads, songs
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: who acts (Abdalasis, companions, Lusitania, country), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 companions | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 garden | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 adorned | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 adorned | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 adorned | aux |
| 15 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 found | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 adorned | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 flowers | case |
| 19 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 adorned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 singing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 singing | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 singing | aux |
| 23 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 adorned | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 songs | det |
| 25 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 singing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 country | nmod:poss |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 songs | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 sat | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 sat | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sat | nsubj |
| 32 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 herself | case |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 sat | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wept | cc |
| 36 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 sat | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Abdalasis | Lusitania | the garden with Lusitania's companions | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||
| 2 | adorn | past · perfect | companions = companion | companions's heads | with flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with flower=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | companions = companion not said here | the songs of companions's country | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | Lusitania | by Lusitania | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by herself=Location | ||||
| 5 | weep | past | Lusitania not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sing | companions's country | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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