Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 19
His first measure was against Witiza, who was brought in chains into his presence.
Who acts: first measure, Roderick · What happens: be, bring, measure · To what, where: Witiza, chains
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first measure, Roderick), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 measure | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 measure | amod |
| 3 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Witiza | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Witiza | cop |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 Witiza | case |
| 6 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Witiza | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 chains | case |
| 12 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 presence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Witiza | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Roderick's first measure | against Witiza | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | Witiza | chains | into Roderick's presence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination | |||
| 3 | measure | Roderick | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=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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