Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 17
The Moslems had already felt jealous of the ascendancy of this beautiful woman; and it was now confidently asserted that Abdalasis, won by her persuasions, had secretly turned Christian.
Who acts: Moslems, assumption, Abdalasis, beautiful woman, woman · What happens: feel, be, win, turn, ascend, persuade · To what, where: Christian
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 (Moslems, assumption, Abdalasis, beautiful woman), 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 Moslems | det |
| 2 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 felt | advmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ascendancy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ascendancy | det |
| 9 | ascendancy | ascendancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jealous | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ascendancy | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 asserted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asserted | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asserted | nsubj:outer |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asserted | cop |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 asserted | advmod |
| 19 | confidently | confidently | ADV | _ | 20 asserted | advmod |
| 20 | asserted | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 won | mark |
| 22 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 won | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Abdalasis | punct |
| 24 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asserted | advcl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 persuasions | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 persuasions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | persuasions | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 won | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 turned | aux |
| 30 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 31 turned | advmod |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 won | advcl |
| 32 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · perfect | the Moslems | jealous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | assumption | now | assert, confidently property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | win | past | Abdalasis | by woman's persuasions | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn | past · perfect | Abdalasis not said here | Christian | secretly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme christian=Result | |||
| 5 | ascend | this beautiful woman | nom ascendancy «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | persuade | woman | nom persuasion «communication transitive»: 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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