Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 32

He now went on to imitate the pernicious policy of his predecessor; throwing down walls and towers, disarming the people, and thus incapacitating them from rebellion.

Who acts: governor · What happens: go on, imitate, throw down, disarm, incapacitate · To what, where: pernicious policy, walls, people, rebellion

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 (governor), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 imitate	mark
6	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 policy	det
8	pernicious	pernicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 policy	amod
9	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imitate	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 predecessor	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 predecessor	nmod:poss
12	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 policy	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 throwing	punct
14	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 throwing	compound:prt
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 throwing	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 towers	cc
18	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 disarming	punct
20	disarming	disarm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 throwing	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 disarming	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 incapacitating	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 incapacitating	cc
25	thus	thus	ADV	_	26 incapacitating	advmod
26	incapacitating	incapacitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 throwing	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 incapacitating	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 rebellion	case
29	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 incapacitating	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	governor			now		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	imitate	to-infinitive	governor not said here	the pernicious policy of governor's predecessor				vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent policy=Theme
3	throw down	gerund	governor not said here	walls and towers				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme
4	disarm	gerund	governor not said here	the people				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
5	incapacitate	gerund	governor not said here	people	rebellion		thus property	tree rules

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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 32