Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 42

The soldiery answered their monarch with loud acclamations, and solemnly pledged themselves to fight to the last gasp in defence of their country and their faith.

Who acts: soldiery · What happens: answer, pledge, fight, defend · To what, where: monarch, toil, defence, country

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 (soldiery), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiery	det
2	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 monarch	nmod:poss
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 acclamations	case
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 acclamations	amod
8	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pledged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pledged	cc
11	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	12 pledged	advmod
12	pledged	pledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 pledged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fight	mark
15	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pledged	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 gasp	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gasp	det
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gasp	amod
19	gasp	gasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 defence	case
21	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fight	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 country	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 country	nmod:poss
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 defence	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 faith	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 faith	nmod:poss
27	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 country	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the soldiery	toil's monarch		with loud acclamations	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent monarch=Eventuality
2	pledge	past	the soldiery not said here	toil		solemnly property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fight	to-infinitive	the soldiery not said here		defence of toil's country and toil's faith	to the last gasp	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	defend			toil's country and toil's faith			nom defence «process 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 42