Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 4
He summoned a hasty levy of horse and foot, amounting to forty thousand; but now were felt the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian, for the best of the horses and armour intended for the public service had been sent into Africa, and were really in possession of the traitors.
Who acts: sunk · What happens: summon, amount, be, intend, send, levy · To what, where: hasty levy, horses, Africa, possession, horse, crafty council
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 (sunk), 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 | 2 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 levy | det |
| 4 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 levy | amod |
| 5 | levy | levy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summoned | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 levy | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 foot | cc |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 levy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amounting | punct |
| 11 | amounting | amount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 summoned | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 thousand | case |
| 13 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 thousand | compound |
| 14 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 amounting | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 felt | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 felt | advmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | cop |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 summoned | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 effects | det |
| 21 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 felt | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 council | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 council | det |
| 24 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 council | amod |
| 25 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 effects | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Julian | case |
| 27 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Julian | compound |
| 28 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 council | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 best | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 best | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 best | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 sent | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 horses | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 horses | det |
| 35 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 best | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 armour | cc |
| 37 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 horses | conj |
| 38 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 horses | acl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 service | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 service | det |
| 41 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 service | amod |
| 42 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 intended | obl |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sent | aux |
| 44 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 sent | aux:pass |
| 45 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | advcl |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 Africa | case |
| 47 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 sent | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 possession | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 possession | cc |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 possession | cop |
| 51 | really | really | ADV | _ | 53 possession | advmod |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 possession | case |
| 53 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 traitors | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 traitors | det |
| 56 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 possession | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | sunk | a hasty levy of horse and foot | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | amount | gerund | sunk not said here | to forty thousand | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to thousand=Value | ||||
| 3 | is | past | sunk not said here | now | the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian obj; feel property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | intend | participle | the horses and armour not said here | for the public service | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | send | past · perfect · passive | sunk not said here | Africa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 6 | is | past | possession | of the traitors | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | levy | horse | nom levy «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | effect | the crafty council of Count Julian | nom effect «phenomenon 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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