Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 40
Exilona was in a chapel in the interior of the palace, where her confessor, a holy friar, was performing mass.
Who acts: Exilona · What happens: be, perform · To what, where: chapel, mass
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 (Exilona), 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 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chapel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chapel | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chapel | det |
| 5 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 interior | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 interior | det |
| 8 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chapel | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interior | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 confessor | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 confessor | advmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 confessor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | confessor | confessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friar | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friar | det |
| 18 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friar | amod |
| 19 | friar | friar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 performing | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 performing | aux |
| 22 | performing | perform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 chapel | advcl |
| 23 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 performing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Exilona | a chapel | in the interior of the palace and Exilona's confessor and a holy friar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | perform | past · progressive | Exilona not said here | mass | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=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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