Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 26

The Christians never mentioned her name without a curse, and the Moslems, the gainers by her misfortune, spake of her only by the appellation of Cava, the vilest epithet they could apply to woman.

Who acts: Christians, presence · What happens: not mention, apply, name · To what, where: name, vilest epithet

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, presence), 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	4 mentioned	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 mentioned	advmod
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mentioned	obj
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 curse	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 curse	det
9	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mentioned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Moslems	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Moslems	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Moslems	det
13	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 mentioned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gainers	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gainers	det
16	gainers	gainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Moslems	nmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 misfortune	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 misfortune	nmod:poss
19	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gainers	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spake	punct
21	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gainers	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spake	nmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 appellation	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 appellation	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 appellation	det
27	appellation	appellation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gainers	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Cava	case
29	Cava	Cava	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 appellation	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 epithet	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 epithet	det
32	vilest	vile	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 epithet	amod
33	epithet	epithet	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appellation	appos
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 apply	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 apply	aux
36	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 epithet	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 woman	mark
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 apply	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	past	the Christians	presence's name	without a curse; the Moslems the gainers by presence's misfortune and spake of presence and the appellation of Cava obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	apply	could	Christians = christian	the vilest epithet not said here	woman advcl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epithet=Theme
3	name		presence			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 26