Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 42
The princess abandoned her Moorish appellation of Elyata, and was baptised by the name of Exilona, by which she was thenceforth called, and has generally been known in history.
Who acts: princess, name · What happens: abandon, baptise, call, know, name · To what, where: Moorish appellation, ceremony, history, Exilona · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, name), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abandoned | nsubj |
| 3 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 appellation | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 appellation | amod |
| 6 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abandoned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Elyata | case |
| 8 | Elyata | Elyata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 appellation | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 baptised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 baptised | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 baptised | aux:pass |
| 12 | baptised | baptise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 abandoned | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 name | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 baptised | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Exilona | case |
| 17 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 called | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 24 called | advmod |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 baptised | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 known | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 known | cc |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 known | aux |
| 28 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 30 known | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 known | aux:pass |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 abandoned | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 history | case |
| 32 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 known | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | past | the princess | ceremony's Moorish appellation of Elyata | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme appellation=Source | ||||
| 2 | baptise | past · passive | the name of Exilona | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | ceremony | which obl; thenceforth property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | present · perfect · passive | the princess not said here | history | generally property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 5 | name | Exilona | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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