Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 15
Then a plan was devised between them by which the city was to be betrayed and given up.
What happens: devise, betray, give up · To what, where: plan, city
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 devised | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 devised | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 devised | aux:pass |
| 5 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 devised | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 betrayed | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 betrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 betrayed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 15 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 devised | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 given | cc |
| 17 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 betrayed | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 given | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 devised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devise | past · passive | a plan | then | between essences = essence | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | betray | past · passive | the city | which obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | participle | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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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