Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 167
Upon this the emir swore, with horrid imprecations, that whoever of the captives refused should himself be stoned to death.
Who acts: emir · What happens: swear, refuse, stone · To what, where: whoever
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 (emir), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 swore | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emir | det |
| 4 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swore | nsubj |
| 5 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 imprecations | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 imprecations | case |
| 8 | horrid | horrid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 imprecations | amod |
| 9 | imprecations | imprecation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swore | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whoever | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 whoever | nsubj |
| 12 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 stoned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 captives | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captives | det |
| 15 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 refused | obl |
| 16 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stoned | aux |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 stoned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stoned | aux:pass |
| 20 | stoned | stone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 imprecations | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stoned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | the emir | upon this; with horrid imprecations | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | of the captives | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stone | should · passive | whoever that | to death result; God nsubj:pass | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to death=Result |
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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