Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 12

Taric had little need to exercise his severity; his orders were obeyed through love, rather than fear, for he was the idol of his soldiery.

Who acts: Taric, spoil · What happens: have, need, exercise, obey, be, order · To what, where: severity, orders, love

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 (Taric, spoil), 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	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 exercise	mark
6	exercise	exercise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 severity	nmod:poss
8	severity	severity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exercise	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 obeyed	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 orders	nmod:poss
11	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 obeyed	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 obeyed	aux:pass
13	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 love	case
15	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obeyed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fear	punct
17	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 fear	cc
18	than	than	ADP	_	17 rather	fixed
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 love	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 idol	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 idol	case
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 idol	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 idol	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 idol	det
25	idol	idol	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obeyed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 soldiery	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 soldiery	nmod:poss
28	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 idol	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Taric				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	need	present	Taric not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	exercise not said to happen	to-infinitive	Taric not said here	spoil's severity			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent severity=Patient
4	obey	past · passive		spoil's orders	love rather fear		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	spoil			for the idol; of spoil's soldiery	tree rules
6	order		spoil				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 12

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 12