Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 18
He gave orders that Exilona should be entertained in a style befitting her former rank; he appointed a train of female attendants to wait upon her, and a guard of honour to protect her from all intrusion.
Who acts: Abdalasis, style · What happens: give, entertain, befit, appoint, wait, protect · To what, where: orders, Exilona, style, former rank, train
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, style), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 entertained | obj |
| 5 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entertained | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 entertained | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 entertained | aux:pass |
| 8 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 orders | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 style | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 style | det |
| 11 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entertained | obl |
| 12 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 style | acl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rank | nmod:poss |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rank | amod |
| 15 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 befitting | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 appointed | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 appointed | nsubj |
| 18 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 train | det |
| 20 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appointed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 attendants | case |
| 22 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 attendants | amod |
| 23 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 train | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 wait | mark |
| 25 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 appointed | advcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wait | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 guard | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 guard | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 guard | det |
| 31 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 honour | case |
| 33 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 guard | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 protect | mark |
| 35 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | advcl |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 protect | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 intrusion | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 intrusion | det |
| 39 | intrusion | intrusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 protect | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Abdalasis | orders | a guard of honour obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | entertain | should · passive | Exilona | a style | orders obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result | |||
| 3 | befit | gerund | a style not said here | Exilona's former rank | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | appoint | past | Abdalasis | a train of female attendants | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | upon Exilona | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | ||||
| 6 | protect | to-infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | Exilona | from all intrusion | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from intrusion=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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