Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 11
Abdalasis chid her fondly, and put the crown away from him; but Exilona persisted in her prayer.
Who acts: Abdalasis, Exilona · What happens: chi, put, persist, pray · To what, where: crown, prayer
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 (Abdalasis, Exilona), 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 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chid | nsubj |
| 2 | chid | chi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fondly | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 2 chid | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chid | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crown | det |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 away | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 persisted | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 persisted | cc |
| 15 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 persisted | nsubj |
| 16 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chid | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 prayer | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 persisted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chi | past | Abdalasis | fondly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | the crown | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent crown=Goal | |||
| 3 | persist | past | Exilona | Exilona's prayer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prayer=Location | ||||
| 4 | pray | Exilona | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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