Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 47
He disarmed the people also, and converted the weapons of war into the implements of peace.
Who acts: Witiza · What happens: disarm, convert · To what, where: people, weapons, implements
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), 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 disarmed | nsubj |
| 2 | disarmed | disarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 disarmed | obj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 disarmed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 converted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 converted | cc |
| 8 | converted | convert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 disarmed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weapons | det |
| 10 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 converted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 war | case |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weapons | nmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 implements | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 implements | det |
| 15 | implements | implement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 converted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 implements | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 disarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disarm | past | Witiza | the people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | convert | past | Witiza not said here | the weapons of war | into the implements of peace result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient into implement=Result |
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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