Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 11
No spoil was permitted to be made excepting in fields of battle, in camps of routed foes, or in cities taken by the sword.
What happens: permit, make, except, rout, take · To what, where: spoil, cities, fields
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 spoil | det |
| 2 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 permitted | xcomp |
| 8 | excepting | except | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 made | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 excepting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 battle | case |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fields | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 camps | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 camps | case |
| 15 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 excepting | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 foes | case |
| 17 | routed | rout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 foes | amod |
| 18 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 camps | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cities | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 cities | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cities | case |
| 22 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 permitted | obl |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cities | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | past · passive | no spoil | cities | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | except not said to happen | gerund | fields of battle | in camps of routed foes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rout | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | take | participle | cities not said here | by the sword | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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