Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 47
Their bodies were left exposed upon the ground, and would have been devoured by dogs, had they not been gathered at night by some friendly hand, and poorly interred in one of the courts of their late dwelling.
Who acts: bodies, dogs, friendly hand · What happens: leave, expose, devour, not gather, inter · To what, where: bodies
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 (bodies, dogs, friendly hand), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exposed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 devoured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 devoured | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 devoured | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 devoured | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 devoured | aux:pass |
| 14 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 dogs | case |
| 16 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 devoured | obl:agent |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gathered | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gathered | aux |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 gathered | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 gathered | aux:pass |
| 22 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gathered | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 hand | det |
| 27 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hand | amod |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gathered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 interred | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 interred | cc |
| 31 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 32 interred | advmod |
| 32 | interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 left | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 interred | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 courts | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 courts | det |
| 37 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 dwelling | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 40 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 dwelling | amod |
| 41 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 courts | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | graces's bodies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | expose | participle | graces's bodies not said here | upon the ground | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | devour | would · perfect · passive | dogs | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not gather | past · perfect · passive | some friendly hand | bodies = body | night | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | inter | participle | in one of the courts of graces's late dwelling; poorly property | tree rules |
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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