Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 25
He then prepared in all haste to cross over into Spain and assume the command of the conquering army; and he wrote a letter in advance to interrupt Taric in the midst of his career.
Who acts: battle · What happens: prepare, cross over, assume, conquer, write, interrupt · To what, where: haste, Spain, command, letter, advance, Taric · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (battle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 haste | det |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prepared | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cross | mark |
| 8 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prepared | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 cross | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 Spain | case |
| 11 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cross | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 assume | cc |
| 13 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cross | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 command | det |
| 15 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assume | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 army | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 army | det |
| 18 | conquering | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 army | amod |
| 19 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 command | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrote | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wrote | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wrote | nsubj |
| 23 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prepared | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 letter | det |
| 25 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wrote | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 advance | case |
| 27 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 letter | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 interrupt | mark |
| 29 | interrupt | interrupt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wrote | advcl |
| 30 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 interrupt | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 midst | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 midst | det |
| 33 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 interrupt | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 career | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 career | nmod:poss |
| 36 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 midst | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | battle | all haste | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | cross over | to-infinitive | battle not said here | Spain | over property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into spain=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | assume | infinitive | battle not said here | the command of the conquering army | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conquer | gerund | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | write | past | battle | a letter | advance | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in advance=Destination | |||
| 6 | interrupt | to-infinitive | battle not said here | Taric | the midst of battle's career | tree rules | |||
| 7 | command | the conquering army | nom command «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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