Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 13
So Abdalasis suffered himself to be beguiled by the blandishments of his wife, and to be invested with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty.
Who acts: Abdalasis, blandishments · What happens: suffer, beguile, invest, blandish, sign · To what, where: Abdalasis, wife, royalty
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, blandishments), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 suffered | advmod |
| 2 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 suffered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 beguiled | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beguiled | aux:pass |
| 7 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suffered | advcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 blandishments | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blandishments | det |
| 10 | blandishments | blandishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beguiled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blandishments | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 invested | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 invested | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 invested | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 invested | aux:pass |
| 18 | invested | invest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suffered | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crown | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 crown | det |
| 21 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 invested | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sceptre | cc |
| 23 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crown | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 signs | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 signs | amod |
| 26 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 crown | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 royalty | case |
| 28 | royalty | royalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 signs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | beguile | to-infinitive · passive | the blandishments of Abdalasis's wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | invest | to-infinitive · passive | Abdalasis not said here | with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with crown=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blandish | Abdalasis's wife | nom blandishment «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | sign | royalty | nom sign «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/38/13/