Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 18
“It is enough,” said Taric; and he made oath to accomplish all that he had promised; and the Jewish hostages came and delivered themselves into his hands.
Who acts: ten, Taric, oath, Jewish hostages · What happens: be, say, make, accomplish, promise, come · To what, where: oath, hostages, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (ten, Taric, oath, Jewish hostages), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enough | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 accomplish | mark |
| 15 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 promised | det:predet |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 promised | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 promised | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 promised | aux |
| 20 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 accomplish | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hostages | det |
| 24 | Jewish | Jewish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hostages | amod |
| 25 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 delivered | cc |
| 28 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 29 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 delivered | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 hands | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 delivered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | ten | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Taric | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Taric | oath | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | to-infinitive | oath not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Taric | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come | past | the Jewish hostages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | deliver | past | the Jewish hostages not said here | hostages = hostage | Taric's hands | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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