Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 37

Overrun the provinces, seize upon the cities, make yourself master of the capital, and your conquest is complete.”

Who acts: you, provinces, conquest · What happens: overrun, seize, make, be · To what, where: provinces, yourself

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 (you, provinces, conquest), 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	Overrun	overrun	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 provinces	det
3	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Overrun	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seize	punct
5	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 provinces	acl:relcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 cities	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cities	det
8	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seize	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Overrun	conj
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 make	obj
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 capital	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 capital	det
15	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 master	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 complete	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 complete	cc
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 conquest	nmod:poss
19	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 complete	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 complete	cop
21	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Overrun	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Overrun	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Overrun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	overrun	imperative	you not said here	the provinces		tree rules
2	seize	present	the provinces not said here		upon the cities	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	infinitive	you not said here	yourself	master of the capital obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Beneficiary master=Product
4	is	present	your conquest		complete property	tree rules

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 37