Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 10
They were forbidden, under pain of severe punishment, to molest any peaceable and unfortified towns, or any unarmed and unresisting people who remained quiet in their homes.
Who acts: people · What happens: forbid, molest, unresist, remain, pain · To what, where: habits, pain, peaceable towns, people, homes, severe punishment
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forbidden | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 3 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pain | punct |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forbidden | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 punishment | case |
| 8 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 punishment | amod |
| 9 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 molest | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 molest | mark |
| 12 | molest | molest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forbidden | conj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 towns | det |
| 14 | peaceable | peaceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 towns | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unfortified | cc |
| 16 | unfortified | unfortified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 peaceable | conj |
| 17 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 molest | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unarmed | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 unarmed | cc |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 unarmed | det |
| 21 | unarmed | unarmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 forbidden | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 unresisting | cc |
| 23 | unresisting | unresist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 unarmed | conj |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 unresisting | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 remained | nsubj |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 people | acl:relcl |
| 27 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 remained | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 homes | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 homes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 remained | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forbidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid | past · passive | habits = habit | pain of severe punishment | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | molest | to-infinitive | any peaceable towns | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus town=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | unresist | gerund | people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | people | habits's homes | quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | |||
| 5 | pain | severe punishment | 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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