Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 21
On the following morning Taric ravaged the gardens of the valley, and set fire to the farm-houses, and then, breaking up his camp, marched off as if abandoning the siege.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: follow, ravage, set, break up, march off, abandon · To what, where: gardens, fire, camp, siege
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 (Taric), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ravaged | obl |
| 5 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ravaged | nsubj |
| 6 | ravaged | ravage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gardens | det |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ravaged | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gardens | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ravaged | conj |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 houses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 houses | det |
| 18 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 houses | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 farm | punct |
| 20 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 breaking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 breaking | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 breaking | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 breaking | punct |
| 25 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ravaged | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 breaking | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 camp | nmod:poss |
| 28 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breaking | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 marched | punct |
| 30 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ravaged | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 marched | compound:prt |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 abandoning | mark |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 abandoning | mark |
| 34 | abandoning | abandon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 marched | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 siege | det |
| 36 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 abandoning | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ravaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ravage | past | Taric | the gardens of the valley | morning | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient | |||
| 3 | set | infinitive | Taric not said here | fire | to the farm houses | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result | |||
| 4 | break up | gerund | Taric not said here | Taric's camp | then | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient | |||
| 5 | march off | past | Taric not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | abandon | gerund | Taric not said here | the siege | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme siege=Source |
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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