Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 29

Many of the Christians had taken refuge within the church, and had barred the doors; but Oppas commanded that fire should be set to the portals, threatening to put every one within to the sword.

Who acts: Many Christians, Oppas · What happens: take, bar, command, set, threaten, put · To what, where: refuge, doors, fire, one · 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 (Many Christians, Oppas), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Christians	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Christians	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Christians	det
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 taken	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 church	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 church	det
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 barred	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 barred	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 barred	aux
14	barred	bar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 taken	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 doors	det
16	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 barred	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 commanded	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 commanded	cc
19	Oppas	Oppas	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 commanded	nsubj
20	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 set	mark
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	nsubj:pass
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 set	aux:pass
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 commanded	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 portals	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 portals	det
28	portals	portal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threatening	punct
30	threatening	threaten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 commanded	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 put	mark
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 threatening	xcomp
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obj
35	within	within	ADP	_	38 sword	case
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 sword	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sword	det
38	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	the Many Christians	refuge	within the church	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme
2	bar	past · perfect	the Many Christians not said here	the doors		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme
3	command	past	Oppas			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	set	should · passive		fire	to the portals	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	threaten	gerund	Oppas not said here			tree rules
6	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	Oppas not said here	every one	within the sword	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 29