Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 41
When the sage Ayub heard of the resolution of Abdalasis to espouse Exilona he was in despair.
Who acts: sage, Abdalasis · What happens: hear, espouse, be, resolve · To what, where: Exilona, despair, Abdalasis
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 (sage, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sage | det |
| 3 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | Ayub | Ayub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sage | appos |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 resolution | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 resolution | det |
| 8 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Abdalasis | case |
| 10 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 resolution | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 espouse | mark |
| 12 | espouse | espouse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | advcl |
| 13 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 espouse | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 despair | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 despair | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 despair | case |
| 17 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 espouse | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the sage | of the resolution of Abdalasis | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of resolution=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | espouse | to-infinitive | the sage not said here | Exilona | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Abdalasis | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resolve | Abdalasis | nom resolution «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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