Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 26
She was surrounded by the Moorish damsels of her train, and followed by her own Moslem guards, all attired with the magnificence that had been intended to grace her arrival at the court of Tunis.
Who acts: Moorish damsels, own Moslem guards, band · What happens: surround, follow, attire, intend, grace, arrive · To what, where: band, all, magnificence, arrival, court
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moorish damsels, own Moslem guards, band), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 damsels | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 damsels | det |
| 6 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 damsels | amod |
| 7 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 train | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 train | nmod:poss |
| 10 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 damsels | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 surrounded | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 guards | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guards | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 guards | amod |
| 17 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 guards | amod |
| 18 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | obl:agent |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attired | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 attired | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 guards | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 magnificence | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 magnificence | det |
| 24 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attired | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 intended | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 intended | aux:pass |
| 28 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 magnificence | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 grace | mark |
| 30 | grace | grace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 intended | xcomp |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 32 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grace | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 court | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 court | det |
| 35 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grace | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Tunis | case |
| 37 | Tunis | Tunis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 court | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | past · passive | the Moorish damsels of band's train | band | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | band's own Moslem guards obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attire | participle · passive | band's own Moslem guards not said here | all | with the magnificence | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | intend | past · perfect · passive | the magnificence | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | grace not said to happen | to-infinitive | band's arrival | the court of Tunis | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme arrival=Destination | ||||
| 6 | arrive | band | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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