Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 40

It was in vain the denunciations of the church were fulminated from the chair of St. Peter; Witiza threw off all allegiance to the Roman pontiff, threatening with pain of death those who should obey the papal mandates.

Who acts: profligate, Witiza · What happens: be, fulminate, throw off, threaten, obey, pain · To what, where: denunciations, chair, allegiance, Roman pontiff, those, papal mandates

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 (profligate, Witiza), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 denunciations	det
6	denunciations	denunciation	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fulminated	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denunciations	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fulminated	aux:pass
11	fulminated	fulminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vain	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 chair	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chair	det
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fulminated	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 St.	case
16	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 chair	nmod
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 St.	flat
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
19	Witiza	Witiza	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	23 allegiance	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 allegiance	det
23	allegiance	allegiance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 pontiff	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pontiff	det
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pontiff	amod
27	pontiff	pontiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threatening	punct
29	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 threw	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 pain	case
31	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threatening	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pain	nmod
34	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 threatening	obl
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 obey	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 obey	aux
37	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 those	acl:relcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mandates	det
39	papal	papal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 mandates	amod
40	mandates	mandate	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 obey	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	profligate			vain property	tree rules
2	fulminate	past · passive		the denunciations of the church	the chair of St.		tree rules
3	throw off	past	Witiza	all allegiance	the Roman pontiff		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent allegiance=Theme to pontiff=Destination
4	threaten	gerund	Witiza not said here	those		with pain of death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	obey	should		the papal mandates		who nsubj	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Theme
6	pain			death			nom pain «state 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 40