Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 26
On receiving the orders of Roderick, every town and hamlet, every mountain and valley, had sent forth its fighting men, and the whole country was on the march towards Andalusia.
Who acts: whole country · What happens: receive, send, be, order · To what, where: orders, fighting men, march, Roderick
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole country), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 receiving | mark |
| 2 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sent | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 orders | det |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 receiving | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Roderick | case |
| 6 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 orders | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 town | punct |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Roderick | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hamlet | cc |
| 11 | hamlet | hamlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 town | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mountain | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 mountain | det |
| 14 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Roderick | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 valley | cc |
| 16 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mountain | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 receiving | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 men | nmod:poss |
| 22 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 men | compound |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sent | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 march | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 march | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 country | amod |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 march | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 march | cop |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 march | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 march | det |
| 32 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 Andalusia | case |
| 34 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 march | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | gerund | the orders of Roderick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | valley's fighting men | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the whole country | the march | towards Andalusia | tree rules | |||
| 4 | order | Roderick | nom order «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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