Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 83
It was a mirror of history, therefore, and had very probably aided King Solomon in acquiring that prodigious knowledge and wisdom for which he was renowned.
Who acts: table, Solomon · What happens: be, have, aid, acquire · To what, where: mirror, King Solomon, prodigious knowledge
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 (table, Solomon), 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 | 4 mirror | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mirror | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mirror | det |
| 4 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 history | case |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mirror | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 had | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mirror | parataxis |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 aided | advmod |
| 13 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 aided | advmod |
| 14 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Solomon | compound |
| 16 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 aided | obj |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 acquiring | mark |
| 18 | acquiring | acquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 aided | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 knowledge | mark |
| 20 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knowledge | amod |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 acquiring | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wisdom | cc |
| 23 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knowledge | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 renowned | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 renowned | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 renowned | cop |
| 28 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knowledge | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mirror | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | table | a mirror | of history | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | therefore property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | aid | past | King Solomon | probably property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | acquire | gerund | prodigious knowledge and wisdom | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Solomon | for prodigious knowledge and wisdom; renowned 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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