Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 22
He redressed grievances, moderated the tributes of his subjects, and conducted himself with mingled mildness and energy in the administration of the laws.
Who acts: beginning · What happens: redress, moderate, conduct, mingle, administer · To what, where: grievances, tributes, beginning, administration, laws
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beginning), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 redressed | nsubj |
| 2 | redressed | redress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | grievances | grievance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 redressed | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moderated | punct |
| 5 | moderated | moderate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 redressed | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tributes | det |
| 7 | tributes | tribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moderated | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 subjects | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 10 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tributes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 conducted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 conducted | cc |
| 13 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 redressed | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 conducted | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 mildness | case |
| 16 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mildness | amod |
| 17 | mildness | mildness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conducted | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 energy | cc |
| 19 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mildness | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 administration | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 administration | det |
| 22 | administration | administration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conducted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 laws | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 laws | det |
| 25 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 administration | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 redressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | redress | past | beginning | grievances | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grievance=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | moderate | past | beginning not said here | the tributes of beginning's subjects | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tribute=Patient | ||||
| 3 | conduct | past | beginning not said here | beginning | the administration of the laws | with mingled mildness and energy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in administration=Destination | ||
| 4 | mingle | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | administer | the laws | nom administration «act 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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