Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 72
“In this way, says Aben Habuz the wise, The Andalusian his foe defies.”
Who acts: Aben · What happens: say, defy · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Aben), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Aben | Aben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 defies | nsubj |
| 8 | Habuz | Habuz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Aben | flat |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wise | det |
| 10 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Aben | list |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Andalusian | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Andalusian | det |
| 13 | Andalusian | Andalusian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Aben | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 defies | nsubj |
| 16 | defies | defy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | this way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | defy in a quote | present | Aben and the Andalusian | Aben's foe nsubj | 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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