Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 25
One of them, named Favila, duke of Cantabria, he put to death, and would have inflicted the same fate upon his son Pelayo, but that the youth was beyond his reach, being preserved by Providence for the future salvation of Spain.
Who acts: beginning, youth, Providence · What happens: name, put, inflict, be, preserve, salve · To what, where: Favila, same fate, reach, One, Spain
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, youth, Providence), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | conj |
| 6 | Favila | Favila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 duke | punct |
| 8 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Favila | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Cantabria | case |
| 10 | Cantabria | Cantabria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 duke | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Favila | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inflicted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 inflicted | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 inflicted | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 inflicted | aux |
| 20 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 One | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fate | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fate | amod |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inflicted | obj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inflicted | obl |
| 27 | Pelayo | Pelayo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reach | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 reach | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 reach | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 youth | det |
| 32 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reach | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 reach | cop |
| 34 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 36 reach | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 reach | nmod:poss |
| 36 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inflicted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 preserved | punct |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 preserved | aux:pass |
| 39 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 reach | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 Providence | case |
| 41 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 preserved | obl |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 salvation | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 salvation | det |
| 44 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 salvation | amod |
| 45 | salvation | salvation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 preserved | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Spain | case |
| 47 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 salvation | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | Favila xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | past | beginning | Favila not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent favila=Goal | |||
| 3 | inflict | would · perfect | the same fate | upon beginning's son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the youth | beginning | beyond beginning's reach | tree rules | |||
| 5 | preserve | gerund · passive | Providence | beginning's reach not said here | for the future salvation of Spain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | salve | Spain | nom salvation «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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