Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 35
In a moment the city was in a ferment, and there was a ferocious emulation who should be first to execute the orders of the caliph.
Who acts: city, ferocious emulation · What happens: be, execute, order · To what, where: ferment, orders, caliph
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 (city, ferocious emulation), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ferment | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ferment | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ferment | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ferment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ferment | det |
| 9 | ferment | ferment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 was | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ferment | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 emulation | det |
| 15 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 emulation | amod |
| 16 | emulation | emulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 first | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 first | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 first | cop |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 emulation | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 execute | mark |
| 22 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 first | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 orders | det |
| 24 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 execute | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 caliph | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 caliph | det |
| 27 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 orders | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ferment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the city | a ferment | moment | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | a ferocious emulation | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | should | a ferocious emulation | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | execute | to-infinitive | the orders of the caliph | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | |||||
| 5 | order | the caliph | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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