Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 22
He would have immediately answered to the challenge, but Taric forbade it, and ordered that the Christian envoy should be conducted from the camp.
Who acts: truth, Taric · What happens: answer, forbid, order, conduct · To what, where: challenge, Christian envoy, camp
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, Taric), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | aux |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 challenge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 challenge | det |
| 8 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forbade | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 forbade | cc |
| 11 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forbade | nsubj |
| 12 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 forbade | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 forbade | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 conducted | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 envoy | det |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 envoy | amod |
| 20 | envoy | envoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 conducted | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 conducted | aux:pass |
| 23 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ordered | ccomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 camp | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 camp | det |
| 26 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conducted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | would · perfect | truth | to the challenge; immediately property | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to challenge=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | forbid | past | Taric | challenge | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | past | Taric not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | conduct | should · passive | the Christian envoy | the camp | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from camp=Destination |
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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