Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 19

They sent letters to Damascus accusing him of apostacy, and of an intention to seize upon the throne in right of his wife, Exilona, as widow of the late King Roderick.

Who acts: enemies · What happens: send, accuse, seize · To what, where: letters, Damascus, Abdalasis, right

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 (enemies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Damascus	case
5	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
6	accusing	accuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sent	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 accusing	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 apostacy	case
9	apostacy	apostacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accusing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seize	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seize	cc
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 intention	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 intention	det
14	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seize	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 seize	mark
16	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 throne	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 throne	det
19	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seize	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 right	case
21	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seize	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 right	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Exilona	punct
26	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 wife	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 widow	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 widow	case
29	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seize	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 Roderick	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Roderick	det
32	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Roderick	amod
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Roderick	compound
34	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 widow	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	enemies = enemy	letters	Damascus			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to damascus=Destination
2	accuse	gerund	enemies = enemy not said here	Abdalasis			of apostacy	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of apostacy=Attribute
3	seize	to-infinitive	enemies = enemy not said here			right of Abdalasis's wife	of a intention; upon the throne; as widow of the late King Roderick	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent of intention=Source

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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 19