Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 44
He repeated his general orders, that they should inflict no wanton injury, nor plunder any place that offered no resistance.
Who acts: rest, orders, place · What happens: repeat, inflict, offer, order · To what, where: general orders, wanton injury, resistance
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 (rest, orders, place), 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 | 2 repeated | nsubj |
| 2 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 orders | amod |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 repeated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inflict | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 inflict | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 inflict | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 inflict | aux |
| 10 | inflict | inflict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 repeated | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 injury | det |
| 12 | wanton | wanton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 injury | compound |
| 13 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inflict | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plunder | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 plunder | cc |
| 16 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 repeated | obl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 repeated | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 resistance | det |
| 22 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | rest | rest's general orders | plunder obl; any place obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inflict | should | orders = order | no wanton injury | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | any place | no resistance | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent resistance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order | rest | 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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