Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 26
“Is this the reward for such great and glorious services?”
What happens: be · To what, where: reward
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: 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 reward | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reward | det |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 services | case |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 services | amod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 services | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glorious | cc |
| 10 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 great | conj |
| 11 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reward | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this reward | for such great services | tree rules |
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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