Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 22

The caliph waited for no proofs in confirmation; he immediately sent private orders that Abdalasis should be put to death, and that the same fate should be dealt to his two brothers who governed in Africa, as a sure means of crushing the conspiracy of this ambitious family.

Who acts: caliph, two brothers, sure, ambitious family · What happens: wait, send, put, deal, govern, mean · To what, where: confirmation, private orders, same fate, two brothers, Africa, conspiracy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (caliph, two brothers, sure, ambitious family), 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 caliph	det
2	caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 proofs	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 proofs	det
6	proofs	proof	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waited	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 confirmation	case
8	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	nsubj
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
13	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 orders	amod
14	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sent	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 put	nsubj:pass
16	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 put	nsubj:pass
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 orders	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dealt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dealt	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 dealt	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fate	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fate	amod
27	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dealt	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 dealt	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 dealt	aux:pass
30	dealt	deal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 waited	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 brothers	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 brothers	nmod:poss
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 brothers	nummod
34	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dealt	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 governed	nsubj
36	governed	govern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 brothers	acl:relcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Africa	case
38	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 governed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 means	mark
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sure	det
42	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 means	nsubj
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dealt	parataxis
44	of	of	SCONJ	_	45 crushing	mark
45	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 means	ccomp
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 conspiracy	det
47	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crushing	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 family	case
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 family	det
50	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 family	amod
51	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 conspiracy	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the caliph			confirmation	for no proofs	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in confirmation=Location
2	send	past	caliph	private orders			immediately property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	put	should · passive		private orders			to death; Abdalasis nsubj:pass	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	deal	should · passive		the same fate	Abdalasis's two brothers			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to brother=Recipient
5	govern	past	Abdalasis's two brothers			Africa		vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	mean	present	a sure					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	crush	gerund		the conspiracy of this ambitious family				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conspiracy=Patient
8	conspire		this ambitious family					nom conspiracy «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 22

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 22