Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 24

Don Roderick waved his sceptre, and addressed them from his lofty throne, reminding them of the horror and desolation which had already been spread through the land by the invaders.

Who acts: Don, invaders · What happens: wave, address, remind, spread · To what, where: sceptre, soldiers, lofty throne, horror, land

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, invaders), 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	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 waved	nsubj
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Don	flat
3	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sceptre	nmod:poss
5	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 addressed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 addressed	cc
8	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waved	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 addressed	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 throne	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 throne	nmod:poss
12	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 throne	amod
13	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 addressed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reminding	punct
15	reminding	remind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 addressed	advcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reminding	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 horror	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horror	det
19	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reminding	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 desolation	cc
21	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 horror	conj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 spread	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spread	aux
24	already	already	ADV	_	26 spread	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 spread	aux:pass
26	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 horror	acl:relcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spread	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 invaders	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 invaders	det
32	invaders	invader	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	past	Don	Don's sceptre				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sceptre=Patient
2	address	past	Don not said here	soldiers = soldier		Don's lofty throne		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination
3	remind speech: other	gerund	Don not said here		soldiers = soldier		of the horror and desolation	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of horror=Topic
4	spread	past · perfect · passive	the invaders	the horror and desolation		the land		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme through land=Destination

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, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 24

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 24