Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 31
He ordered the trumpets to call off the troops from the carnage, and extended grace to all the surviving inhabitants.
Who acts: veteran, trumpets · What happens: order, call off · To what, where: trumpets, troops, carnage
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 (veteran, trumpets), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trumpets | det |
| 4 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 call | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 troops | det |
| 9 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 call | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 carnage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carnage | det |
| 12 | carnage | carnage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grace | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grace | cc |
| 15 | extended | extended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grace | amod |
| 16 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 inhabitants | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 inhabitants | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 inhabitants | det |
| 20 | surviving | surviving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 inhabitants | amod |
| 21 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grace | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | veteran | the trumpets | extended grace to all surviving inhabitants parataxis | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent trumpet=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | call off speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the trumpets not said here | the troops | the carnage | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent troops=Theme from carnage=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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