Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 16
The assumption of the insignia of the ancient Gothic kings was soon rumoured about, and caused the most violent suspicions.
What happens: rumour, cause, assume · To what, where: assumption, violent suspicions, insignia
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 assumption | det |
| 2 | assumption | assumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rumoured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 insignia | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 insignia | det |
| 5 | insignia | insignia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assumption | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kings | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kings | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kings | amod |
| 9 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kings | amod |
| 10 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insignia | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rumoured | aux:pass |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 rumoured | advmod |
| 13 | rumoured | rumour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 rumoured | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caused | cc |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rumoured | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 suspicions | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 violent | advmod |
| 20 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 suspicions | amod |
| 21 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caused | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rumoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rumour | past · passive | the assumption of the insignia of the ancient Gothic kings | about, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the violent suspicions | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition suspicion=Patient | |||||
| 3 | assume | the insignia of the ancient Gothic kings | nom assumption «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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