Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 46
The illustrious couple, adorned with all the graces of youth and beauty, were hurried to a scaffold in the great square of Seville, and there beheaded, amidst the shouts and execrations of an infatuated multitude.
What happens: adorn, hurry, behead, shout, infatuate, execrate · To what, where: illustrious couple, great square, infatuated multitude
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | illustrious | illustrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 adorned | punct |
| 5 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 couple | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 graces | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 graces | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 graces | det |
| 9 | graces | grace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 adorned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 graces | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beauty | cc |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 youth | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 couple | punct |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurried | aux:pass |
| 16 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 scaffold | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 scaffold | det |
| 19 | scaffold | scaffold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurried | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 square | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 square | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 square | amod |
| 23 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurried | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Seville | case |
| 25 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 square | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 beheaded | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 beheaded | cc |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 beheaded | advmod |
| 29 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hurried | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 shouts | punct |
| 31 | amidst | amidst | SCONJ | _ | 33 shouts | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shouts | det |
| 33 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 beheaded | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 execrations | cc |
| 35 | execrations | execration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shouts | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 multitude | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 multitude | det |
| 38 | infatuated | infatuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 multitude | amod |
| 39 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 execrations | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | participle | the illustrious couple not said here | with all graces of youth and beauty | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hurry | past · passive | the illustrious couple | the great square of Seville | to a scaffold | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to scaffold=Initial_Location in square=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | behead | participle | there | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | execrations of a infatuated multitude conj | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | infatuate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | execrate | a infatuated multitude | nom execration «feeling 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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