Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 18

In the year 1546 an account of this cavern was given to the archbishop and cardinal Don Juan Martinez Siliceo, who, desirous of examining it, ordered the entrance to be cleaned.

What happens: give, examine, order, clean, account · To what, where: account, archbishop, entrance, cavern

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obl
4	1546	1546	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 year	flat
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 account	det
6	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cavern	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cavern	det
9	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 account	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	aux:pass
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 archbishop	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 archbishop	det
14	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 given	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cardinal	cc
16	cardinal	cardinal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 archbishop	conj
17	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cardinal	appos
18	Juan	Juan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Don	flat
19	Martinez	Martinez	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Don	flat
20	Siliceo	Siliceo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Don	flat
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 desirous	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 desirous	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 desirous	punct
24	desirous	desirous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Don	conj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 examining	mark
26	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 desirous	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 examining	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ordered	punct
29	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 entrance	det
31	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ordered	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 cleaned	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 cleaned	aux:pass
34	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 entrance	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past · passive	a account of this cavern	the archbishop and cardinal	year	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to archbishop=Recipient
2	examine	gerund	account			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	order	past	the entrance			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme
4	clean	to-infinitive · passive	the entrance not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»
5	account		this cavern			nom account «communication 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, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 18

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 18