Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 17
As to the spoil of the conquered, he shared it freely among his followers, and squandered his own portion with open-handed generosity.
Who acts: spoil · What happens: conquer, share, squander, hand · To what, where: spoil, reward, own portion
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 (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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 spoil | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spoil | det |
| 4 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shared | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 conquered | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conquered | det |
| 7 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spoil | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoil | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shared | nsubj |
| 10 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shared | obj |
| 12 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 10 shared | advmod |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 followers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 followers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shared | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 squandered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 squandered | cc |
| 18 | squandered | squander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shared | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 portion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 portion | amod |
| 21 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squandered | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 generosity | case |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 handed | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 25 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 generosity | amod |
| 26 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 squandered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | participle | the spoil not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | share | past | spoil | reward | as the spoil; among spoil's followers; freely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | squander | past | spoil not said here | spoil's own portion | with handed generosity | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Asset | |||
| 4 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «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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