Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 49
The third was led by Taric himself, and with this he determined to make a wide sweep through the kingdom.
Who acts: Taric, Kesadi · What happens: lead, determine, make · To what, where: third, wide sweep, kingdom
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 (Taric, Kesadi), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux:pass |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Taric | case |
| 6 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 Taric | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 determined | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 determined | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 13 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sweep | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sweep | amod |
| 18 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 kingdom | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 kingdom | det |
| 21 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | Taric Kesadi | the third | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | Kesadi | with this | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Kesadi not said here | a wide sweep | the kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sweep=Product |
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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