Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 8
Then Exilona produced a crown of gold, sparkling with jewels, which had belonged to the king, Don Roderick, and said, “Behold, thou art king in authority, be so in thy outward state.
Who acts: Exilona, jewels · What happens: produce, sparkle, belong, say, be, crown · To what, where: crown, outward state, gold · 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 (Exilona, jewels), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 produced | advmod |
| 2 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crown | det |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sparkling | punct |
| 9 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 produced | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 jewels | case |
| 11 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sparkling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 belonged | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 belonged | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 belonged | aux |
| 15 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 belonged | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Don | punct |
| 20 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | appos |
| 21 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Don | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 state | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 27 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 30 art | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Behold | punct |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 art | nsubj |
| 30 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 art | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 authority | case |
| 33 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 art | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 art | punct |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 state | cop |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 state | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 state | case |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 state | nmod:poss |
| 39 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 state | amod |
| 40 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | Exilona | a crown of gold | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Result | |||
| 2 | sparkle | gerund | Exilona not said here | with jewels | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with jewel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | belong | past · perfect | jewels | to the king | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | be speech: other in a quote | infinitive | thy outward state | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication 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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