Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 50
The head of Abdalasis was embalmed, and enclosed in a casket, and sent to Syria to the cruel Suleiman.
What happens: embalm, enclose, send · To what, where: head, casket, Syria
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 | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embalmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Abdalasis | case |
| 4 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 embalmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | embalmed | embalm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enclosed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 enclosed | cc |
| 9 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 embalmed | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 casket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 casket | det |
| 12 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enclosed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 embalmed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Syria | case |
| 17 | Syria | Syria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Suleiman | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Suleiman | det |
| 20 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Suleiman | amod |
| 21 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 embalmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embalm | past · passive | the head of Abdalasis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enclose | participle | a casket | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | participle | Syria | to the cruel Suleiman | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to syria=Destination |
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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