Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 26
This lance has been held sacred from all other foes to make a passage for thy perjured soul.”
What happens: hold, make, perjure · To what, where: lance, other foes, passage
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lance | det |
| 2 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 held | aux:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 held | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 foes | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 foes | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foes | amod |
| 10 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 held | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 passage | det |
| 14 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 soul | case |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 soul | nmod:poss |
| 17 | perjured | perjure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 soul | amod |
| 18 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · perfect · passive | this lance | all other foes | sacred property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a passage | for thy perjured soul | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent passage=Product for soul=Asset | ||||
| 3 | perjure | participle | tree rules |
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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