Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 33

A few cities were permitted to retain their fortifications, but these were intrusted to Alcaydes, in whom he had especial confidence: the greater part of the kingdom was left defenceless.

Who acts: governor · What happens: permit, retain, intrust, have, leave · To what, where: few cities, fortifications, these, especial confidence, greater part

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cities	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cities	amod
3	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 permitted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 permitted	aux:pass
5	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 retain	mark
7	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 permitted	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fortifications	nmod:poss
9	fortifications	fortification	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retain	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 intrusted	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 intrusted	cc
12	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 intrusted	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 intrusted	aux:pass
14	intrusted	intrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 permitted	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Alcaydes	case
16	Alcaydes	alcayde	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 intrusted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 whom	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 intrusted	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 whom	acl:relcl
22	especial	especial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 confidence	amod
23	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 left	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 part	det
26	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 part	amod
27	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 left	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 kingdom	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kingdom	det
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 part	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 left	aux:pass
32	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 permitted	parataxis
33	defenceless	defenceless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 left	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 permitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	permit	past · passive		a few cities		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	retain not said to happen	to-infinitive		people's fortifications		tree rules
3	intrust	past · passive		these	to Alcaydes; whom obl	tree rules
4	have	past	governor	especial confidence		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient
5	leave	past · passive		the greater part of the kingdom	defenceless property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 33