Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 28
Magued ordered his followers to make use of the long folds of their turbans instead of cords, and succeeded without difficulty in clambering into the breach.
Who acts: Magued, followers · What happens: order, make, succeed, clamber, use · To what, where: followers, use, breach, long folds
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Magued, followers), 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 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | 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 | 4 followers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 folds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 folds | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 folds | amod |
| 11 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 use | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 turbans | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 turbans | nmod:poss |
| 14 | turbans | turban | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 folds | nmod |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 cords | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turbans | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeeded | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 succeeded | cc |
| 20 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 difficulty | case |
| 22 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succeeded | obl |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 clambering | mark |
| 24 | clambering | clamber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 succeeded | advcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 breach | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 breach | det |
| 27 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clambering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Magued | Magued's followers | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Magued's followers not said here | use of the long folds of folds's turbans instead cords | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past | Magued not said here | without difficulty | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | clamber | gerund | Magued not said here | the breach | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into breach=Destination | ||||
| 5 | use | the long folds of folds's turbans instead cords | nom use «act 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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