Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 25
“Can such hostility exist against the family of Muza?” exclaimed they.
Who acts: such hostility · What happens: exist, exclaim · To what, where: favour · 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 (such hostility), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exist | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hostility | aux |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hostility | amod |
| 4 | hostility | hostility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exist | nsubj |
| 5 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Muza | case |
| 10 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 family | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 Muza | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Muza | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exist | conj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist in a quote | present | such hostility | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | such hostility not said here | favour | against the family of Muza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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