Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 7
When Taric had surveyed the field, he caused the spoils of the dead and the plunder of the camp to be brought before him.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: survey, cause, spoil, bring, plunder · To what, where: field, plunder, camp
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 surveyed | advmod |
| 2 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 surveyed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surveyed | aux |
| 4 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 caused | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surveyed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 surveyed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caused | nsubj |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spoils | det |
| 11 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 caused | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dead | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dead | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spoils | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plunder | det |
| 17 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 camp | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plunder | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 brought | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 spoils | conj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | past · perfect | Taric | the field | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | Taric | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spoil | present | Taric not said here | of the dead | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the plunder of the camp | before Taric | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | plunder | the camp | nom plunder «possession 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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