Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 21
These accusations arrived at Damascus just after the accession of the sanguinary Suleiman to the throne, and in the height of his persecution of the unfortunate Muza.
Who acts: accusations, sanguinary, Damascus · What happens: arrive, accede, persecute · To what, where: Damascus, unfortunate Muza
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 (accusations, sanguinary, Damascus), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 accusations | det |
| 2 | accusations | accusation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Damascus | case |
| 5 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 accession | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 accession | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 accession | det |
| 9 | accession | accession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sanguinary | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sanguinary | det |
| 12 | sanguinary | sanguinary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accession | nmod |
| 13 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sanguinary | appos |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 throne | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 throne | det |
| 16 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 height | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 height | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 height | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 height | det |
| 21 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 persecution | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 persecution | nmod:poss |
| 24 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 height | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Muza | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Muza | det |
| 27 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Muza | amod |
| 28 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 persecution | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | this accusations | Damascus | after the accession of the sanguinary | to the throne; the height of Damascus's persecution of the unfortunate Muza conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | accede | the sanguinary | nom accession «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | persecute | Damascus | the unfortunate Muza | nom persecution «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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