Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 42
For this purpose he ordered a review of his troops on the plain of Ecija.
Who acts: letter · What happens: order, review · To what, where: review, troops
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 (letter), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 review | det |
| 7 | review | review | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 troops | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 troops | nmod:poss |
| 10 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 review | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 plain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 troops | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ecija | case |
| 15 | Ecija | Ecija | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 plain | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | letter | a review of letter's troops on the plain of Ecija | for this purpose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent review=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | review | letter's troops on the plain of Ecija | nom review «cognition 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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