Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 46

Issuing secret orders, therefore, in all directions, he dismantled most of the cities, and demolished the castles and fortresses that might serve as rallying points for the factious.

Who acts: Witiza, castles · What happens: issue, dismantle, demolish, serve · To what, where: secret orders, directions, most, castles

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 (Witiza, castles), 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	Issuing	issue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dismantled	advcl
2	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 orders	amod
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Issuing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	1 Issuing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 directions	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 directions	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 directions	det
9	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Issuing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Issuing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dismantled	nsubj
12	dismantled	dismantle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 dismantled	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cities	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cities	det
16	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 most	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 demolished	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 demolished	cc
19	demolished	demolish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dismantled	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castles	det
21	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 demolished	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fortresses	cc
23	fortresses	fortress	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 castles	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 serve	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 serve	aux
26	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 castles	acl:relcl
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 points	case
28	rallying	rallying	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 points	compound
29	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 serve	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 factious	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 factious	det
32	factious	factious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 points	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dismantled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	issue	gerund	Witiza not said here	secret orders	all directions	therefore property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme
2	dismantle	past	Witiza	most of the cities			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient
3	demolish	past	Witiza not said here	the castles and fortresses			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer
4	serve	might	the castles and fortresses			as rallying points for the factious	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as point=Attribute

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 46

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 46