Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 8
They were led by an old Arab general, Muza ben Nosier, to whom was confided the government of Almagreb; most of which he had himself conquered.
Who acts: Muza ben, most, Almagreb · What happens: lead, confide, have, conquer · To what, where: invaders, government, Almagreb
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza ben, most, Almagreb), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | aux:pass |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 general | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 general | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 general | amod |
| 7 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 general | amod |
| 8 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 led | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ben | punct |
| 10 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ben | compound |
| 11 | ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl:agent |
| 12 | Nosier | Nosier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ben | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 confided | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 whom | case |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 confided | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 confided | aux:pass |
| 17 | confided | confide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 led | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 government | det |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confided | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Almagreb | case |
| 21 | Almagreb | Almagreb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 government | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 23 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 had | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 most | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | Muza ben | invaders = invader | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | confide speech: other | past · passive | the government of Almagreb | whom nsubj:pass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | most | Almagreb | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conquer | participle | Almagreb not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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