Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 41
They were both surprised at their devotions, and dragged forth by the hands of the rabble.
Who acts: orisons · What happens: be, drag, devote · To what, where: devotions
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 (orisons), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 devotions | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 surprised | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dragged | cc |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 surprised | conj |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 dragged | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hands | det |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dragged | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rabble | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rabble | det |
| 17 | rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hands | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | orisons = orison | orisons's devotions | both, surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drag | participle | orisons = orison not said here | by the hands of the rabble; forth property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | devote | orisons = orison | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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