Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 39
Abdalasis was offering up his orisons in a small mosque which he had erected for the use of the neighbouring peasantry.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: offer up, erect, neighbour, use · To what, where: orisons, small mosque, neighbouring peasantry
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 | 3 offering | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offering | aux |
| 3 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 offering | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 orisons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | orisons | orison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offering | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mosque | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mosque | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mosque | amod |
| 10 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offering | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 erected | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 erected | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 erected | aux |
| 14 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 mosque | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 use | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 use | det |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 erected | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 peasantry | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 peasantry | det |
| 20 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 peasantry | amod |
| 21 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 use | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer up | past · progressive | Abdalasis | Abdalasis's orisons | a small mosque | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent orison=Theme | |||
| 2 | erect | past · perfect · passive | a small mosque | for the use of the neighbouring peasantry; Abdalasis nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for use=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | use | the neighbouring peasantry | nom use «act 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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