Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 30
So they prepared to execute the bloody mandate with the blind fidelity of Moslems.
Who acts: orders · What happens: prepare, execute · To what, where: bloody mandate
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 execute | mark |
| 5 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prepared | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mandate | det |
| 7 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mandate | amod |
| 8 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 execute | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fidelity | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fidelity | det |
| 11 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fidelity | amod |
| 12 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 execute | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Moslems | case |
| 14 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 fidelity | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | orders = order | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | execute not said to happen | to-infinitive | orders = order not said here | the bloody mandate | with the blind fidelity of Moslems | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mandate=Patient with fidelity=Instrument |
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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