Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 42
The new emir was of a cruel and suspicious nature, and commenced his sway with a stern severity that soon made those under his command look back with regret to the easy rule of Abdalasis.
Who acts: new emir, cruel nature, stern severity, Suleiman, Abdalasis · What happens: be, commence, make, look back, command, rule · To what, where: sway, stern severity, command · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (new emir, cruel nature, stern severity, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emir | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emir | amod |
| 3 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nature | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 nature | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nature | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nature | det |
| 7 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nature | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 suspicious | cc |
| 9 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cruel | conj |
| 10 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commenced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 commenced | cc |
| 13 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 nature | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sway | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 commenced | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 severity | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 severity | det |
| 18 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 severity | amod |
| 19 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 commenced | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 made | advmod |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 severity | acl:relcl |
| 23 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 command | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 command | nmod:poss |
| 26 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 made | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 look | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 regret | case |
| 30 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 rule | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rule | det |
| 33 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 rule | amod |
| 34 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Abdalasis | case |
| 36 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 rule | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 nature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the new emir | of a cruel nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence | past | a cruel nature not said here | Suleiman's sway | with a stern severity | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent sway=Eventuality with severity=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | make | past | a stern severity | a stern severity | Suleiman's command | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Product | ||
| 4 | look back | infinitive | a stern severity not said here | with regret; to the easy rule of Abdalasis | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to rule=Theme | ||||
| 5 | command | Suleiman | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | rule | Abdalasis | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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