Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 106
This will serve to explain some of the geographical names on the peninsula which are of Arabian origin.
Who acts: This, some · What happens: serve, explain, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, some), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 serve | aux |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 serve | xcomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 origin | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 names | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 names | det |
| 9 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 names | amod |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 some | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 peninsula | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peninsula | det |
| 13 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 names | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 some | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 origin | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 origin | case |
| 17 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 origin | amod |
| 18 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explain | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | some of the geographical names on the peninsula Arabian origin | of Arabian origin | tree rules |
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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