Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 39

They will overturn your altars; trample on the cross; lay waste your cities; carry off your wives and daughters, and doom yourselves and sons to hard and cruel slavery.

Who acts: Saracens · What happens: overturn, lay, carry off, doom · To what, where: altars, waste, wives, yourselves

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 (Saracens), 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 overturn	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overturn	aux
3	overturn	overturn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 altars	nmod:poss
5	altars	altar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 overturn	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 trample	punct
7	trample	trample	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 overturn	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 cross	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cross	det
10	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trample	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 lay	punct
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overturn	conj
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cities	nmod:poss
15	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 carry	punct
17	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 overturn	parataxis
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 carry	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wives	nmod:poss
20	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 daughters	cc
22	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wives	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 doom	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 doom	cc
25	doom	doom	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 carry	conj
26	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 doom	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sons	cc
28	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 yourselves	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 slavery	case
30	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 slavery	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cruel	cc
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hard	conj
33	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 doom	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 overturn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	overturn	future	Saracens = saracen	your altars	trample on the cross obl	tree rules
2	lay	infinitive	Saracens = saracen not said here	waste	your cities obj	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent waste=Theme city=Destination
3	carry off	infinitive		your wives and daughters		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
4	doom	infinitive		yourselves	to hard slavery	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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 39