Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 9
He remarked one among them who ever sat apart; and neither joined in the labours nor sports of her companions.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: remark, sit, join · To what, where: one
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), 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 remarked | nsubj |
| 2 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 remarked | obj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remarked | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 sat | advmod |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remarked | parataxis |
| 9 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 joined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 joined | cc |
| 12 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 13 joined | advmod |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remarked | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 labours | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 labours | det |
| 16 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 joined | obl |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 sports | cc |
| 18 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 labours | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 companions | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 companions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 labours | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | past | Abdalasis | one | among intervals = interval | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 2 | sit | past | ever | who nsubj; apart property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | join | participle | in the labours of Lusitania's companions nor sports; neither property | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in labour=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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