Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 33
Those who preferred to leave the city were suffered to depart in safety, but not to take with them any of their wealth.
What happens: prefer, leave, suffer, depart, not take · To what, where: city, Those, safety
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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 suffered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 preferred | nsubj |
| 3 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 preferred | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 suffered | aux:pass |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 depart | mark |
| 11 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 suffered | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 safety | case |
| 13 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 depart | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 take | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 suffered | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obl |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 them | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wealth | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 any | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | past | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | the city | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past · passive | Those | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | depart | to-infinitive | safety | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not take | to-infinitive | with troops | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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