Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 22
So the eyes of Witiza were put out, and he was thrown into the same dungeon at Cordova in which Theodofredo had languished.
Who acts: Theodofredo · What happens: put out, throw, languish · To what, where: eyes, Roderick, same dungeon
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 (Theodofredo), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eyes | det |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Witiza | case |
| 5 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thrown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thrown | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thrown | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 put | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 dungeon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dungeon | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dungeon | amod |
| 17 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Cordova | case |
| 19 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 languished | obl |
| 22 | Theodofredo | Theodofredo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 languished | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 languished | aux |
| 24 | languished | languish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thrown | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past · passive | the eyes of Witiza | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | Roderick | into the same dungeon result; at Cordova | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into dungeon=Result | ||||
| 3 | languish | past · perfect | Theodofredo | which obl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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