Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 4
Those who were of noble rank were entertained in luxury and magnificence; slaves were appointed to attend upon them, and they were arrayed in the richest apparel and decorated with the most precious jewels.
What happens: be, appoint, attend, array, decorate · To what, where: luxury, slaves, richest apparel
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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 entertained | det |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 entertained | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entertained | cop |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 entertained | mark |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rank | amod |
| 6 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entertained | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entertained | cop |
| 8 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 luxury | case |
| 10 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entertained | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 magnificence | cc |
| 12 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 luxury | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 appointed | punct |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 appointed | aux:pass |
| 16 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 entertained | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 attend | mark |
| 18 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 appointed | xcomp |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attend | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 arrayed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 arrayed | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 arrayed | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 25 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 appointed | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 apparel | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 apparel | det |
| 28 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 apparel | amod |
| 29 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arrayed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 decorated | cc |
| 31 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 arrayed | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 jewels | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 jewels | det |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 precious | advmod |
| 35 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 jewels | amod |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 decorated | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | luxury and magnificence | who nsubj; noble rank nsubj; entertained property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | slaves | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | upon slaves = slave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | array | past · passive | slaves = slave | the richest apparel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | decorate | participle | with the precious jewels | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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