Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 52
In stipulating for the safety of his people, he did not forget that they were brave men, and that they still had weapons in their hands.
Who acts: Bishop, people · What happens: stipulate, not forget, be, have · To what, where: brave men, weapons, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bishop, people), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 stipulating | mark |
| 2 | stipulating | stipulate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 forget | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 safety | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 safety | det |
| 5 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stipulating | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 people | nmod:poss |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 safety | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stipulating | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 forget | advmod |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 men | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 men | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 men | cop |
| 17 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 forget | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forget | parataxis |
| 25 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hands | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stipulate | gerund | Bishop not said here | for the safety of Bishop's people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not forget | past · do-support | Bishop | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | people | brave men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | people | weapons | people's hands | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=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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