Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 41
About this time, the cruel Suleiman, having destroyed the family of Muza, had sent an Arab general, named Alahor, to succeed Abdalasis as emir or governor of Spain.
Who acts: cruel Suleiman · What happens: destroy, send, name, succeed · To what, where: family, cruel Suleiman, Arab general, Abdalasis
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 (cruel Suleiman), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Suleiman | det |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Suleiman | amod |
| 7 | Suleiman | Suleiman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 destroyed | aux |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Suleiman | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destroyed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Muza | case |
| 14 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 family | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Suleiman | punct |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sent | aux |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 general | det |
| 19 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 general | amod |
| 20 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 named | punct |
| 22 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 general | acl |
| 23 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 named | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 succeed | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 succeed | mark |
| 26 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 27 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 succeed | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 emir | case |
| 29 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 succeed | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 governor | cc |
| 31 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 emir | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Spain | case |
| 33 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 governor | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | gerund · perfect | the cruel Suleiman not said here | the family of Muza | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect · passive | the cruel Suleiman | time | a Arab general obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination general=Theme | |||
| 3 | name | participle | a Arab general not said here | Alahor xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | succeed | to-infinitive | Abdalasis | as emir or governor of Spain | 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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