Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 15

Taric ben Zeyad considered his victory incomplete so long as the Gothic monarch survived; he proclaimed great rewards, therefore, to whomsoever should bring Roderick to him, dead or alive.

Who acts: Taric, Gothic monarch, monarch, whomsoever · What happens: consider, survive, proclaim, bring · To what, where: victory, great rewards, Roderick, Taric

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, Gothic monarch, monarch, whomsoever), 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	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 considered	nsubj
2	ben	BenJacoby@ECT	X	_	1 Taric	flat:foreign
3	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Taric	flat
4	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 victory	nmod:poss
6	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 considered	obj
7	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	_	4 considered	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 considered	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 survived	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monarch	det
12	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 monarch	amod
13	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 survived	nsubj
14	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 long	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 proclaimed	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 proclaimed	nsubj
17	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 considered	parataxis
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rewards	amod
19	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 proclaimed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 therefore	punct
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	17 proclaimed	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bring	punct
23	to	to	SCONJ	_	26 bring	mark
24	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 bring	aux
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 proclaimed	conj
27	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bring	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dead	punct
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bring	parataxis
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 alive	cc
33	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dead	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	consider	past	Taric	Taric's victory		incomplete, long property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent victory=Attribute
2	survive	past	the Gothic monarch				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	proclaim	past	monarch	great rewards		therefore property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
4	bring	should	whomsoever	Roderick	Taric		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roderick=Theme to he=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, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 15