Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 29
“Allah is great,” said they, “and commands us to obey our sovereign.”
Who acts: Allah, orders · What happens: be, say, command, obey · To what, where: us, sovereign · 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 (Allah, orders), 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 | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 2 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 great | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 great | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commands | cc |
| 12 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 commands | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 obey | mark |
| 15 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commands | xcomp |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 obey | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Allah | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | orders = order | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | command in a quote | present | us | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | obey not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | our sovereign | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme |
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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