Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 14
The Christians cursed him as the cause of all their woe; the Moslems despised and distrusted him as a traitor.
Who acts: Christians, Moslems · What happens: curse, despise, distrust, cause · To what, where: tree, woe
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians, Moslems), 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 Christians | det |
| 2 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 cursed | nsubj |
| 3 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cursed | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 cause | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cause | det |
| 7 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cursed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 woe | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 woe | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 woe | nmod:poss |
| 11 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cause | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 despised | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Moslems | det |
| 14 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 despised | nsubj |
| 15 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cursed | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 distrusted | cc |
| 17 | distrusted | distrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 despised | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 distrusted | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 traitor | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 traitor | det |
| 21 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 distrusted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cursed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | the Christians | tree | as the cause of Christians's woe | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | despise | past | the Moslems | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | distrust | past | the Moslems not said here | tree | as a traitor | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | cause | Christians's woe | nom cause «event 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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