Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 65
It is to be remarked that the Arab accounts have most the air of verity, and the events, as they relate them, are in the ordinary course of common life.
Who acts: Arab accounts, accounts · What happens: remark, have, relate, be · To what, where: relative, air, events, ordinary course
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 (Arab accounts, accounts), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remarked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarked | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 remarked | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remarked | aux:pass |
| 5 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 accounts | det |
| 8 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 accounts | amod |
| 9 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarked | advcl |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 air | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 verity | case |
| 15 | verity | verity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 air | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 events | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 events | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 events | det |
| 19 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remarked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 relate | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 relate | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 relate | nsubj |
| 23 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remarked | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 relate | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 course | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 course | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 course | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 course | det |
| 29 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 course | amod |
| 30 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 relate | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 32 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 course | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | present · passive | relative | the events obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the Arab accounts | the air of verity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient | ||||
| 3 | relate | present | accounts = account | events = event | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the ordinary course | of common life | 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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