Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 21

“Let the evils he has inflicted on others be visited upon his own head,” said he: “as he did unto Theodofredo, even so be it done unto him.”

Who acts: Roderick · What happens: let, inflict, visit, say, do · To what, where: evils, others · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evils	det
4	evils	evil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 inflicted	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 inflicted	aux
7	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 evils	acl:relcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 others	case
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 inflicted	obl
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 visited	aux:pass
11	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 inflicted	parataxis
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 head	amod
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visited	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	advcl
25	unto	unto	ADP	_	26 Theodofredo	case
26	Theodofredo	Theodofredo	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 did	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 did	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 so	advmod
29	so	so	ADV	_	32 done	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	aux:pass
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 be	obj
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
33	unto	unto	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the evils			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Theme
2	inflict in a quote	present · perfect	Roderick	the evils not said here	others		tree rules
3	visit in a quote	infinitive · passive				upon Roderick's own head	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»
4	say speech: assert	past	Roderick				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	past	Roderick			unto Theodofredo	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	infinitive · passive				unto Roderick	vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 21