Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 36
Abdalasis was at this time at a palace in the country not far from Seville, commanding a delightful view of the fertile plain of the Guadalquivir.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: be, command, view · To what, where: palace, delightful view, fertile plain · 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 (Abdalasis), 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 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 country | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Seville | case |
| 15 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 far | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 commanding | punct |
| 17 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 time | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 view | det |
| 19 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 view | amod |
| 20 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 commanding | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 plain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plain | det |
| 23 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 plain | amod |
| 24 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 view | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Guadalquivir | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Guadalquivir | det |
| 27 | Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 plain | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abdalasis | a palace in the country | at this time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | gerund | Abdalasis not said here | a delightful view of the fertile plain of the Guadalquivir | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | view | the fertile plain of the Guadalquivir | nom view «cognition 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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