Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 31
Having been informed that the governors of certain castles and fortresses in Castile and Andalusia had conspired against him, he caused them to be put to death, and their strongholds to be demolished.
Who acts: Andalusia · What happens: inform, conspire, cause, put, demolish · To what, where: governors, Castile, strongholds · 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 (Andalusia), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 informed | aux |
| 2 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 informed | aux:pass |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 conspired | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 governors | det |
| 6 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 conspired | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 castles | case |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 castles | amod |
| 9 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 governors | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fortresses | cc |
| 11 | fortresses | fortress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 castles | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Castile | case |
| 13 | Castile | Castile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 governors | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Andalusia | cc |
| 15 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Castile | conj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conspired | aux |
| 17 | conspired | conspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 informed | ccomp |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 conspired | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caused | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 caused | nsubj |
| 22 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 caused | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 put | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 put | aux:pass |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 caused | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 death | case |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 demolished | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 demolished | cc |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 strongholds | nmod:poss |
| 32 | strongholds | stronghold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 demolished | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 demolished | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 demolished | aux:pass |
| 35 | demolished | demolish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 caused | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | gerund · perfect · passive | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | conspire | past · perfect · passive | the governors of certain castles and fortresses in Castile and Andalusia | against Andalusia | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | Andalusia | Castile | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive · passive | Andalusia not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 5 | demolish | to-infinitive · passive | Castile's strongholds | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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