Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 7
The friends of his house, and the disaffected of all classes, hastened to join him; and he advanced rapidly, and without opposition, through an unarmed and enervated land.
Who acts: friends, arm · What happens: disaffect, hasten, join, advance, unarm, enervate · To what, where: classes, arm, unarmed land
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 (friends, arm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 friends | det |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disaffected | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 friends | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disaffected | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disaffected | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disaffected | det |
| 9 | disaffected | disaffect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 classes | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 classes | det |
| 12 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disaffected | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hastened | punct |
| 14 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 classes | acl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 join | mark |
| 16 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hastened | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 join | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 advanced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 advanced | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 advanced | nsubj |
| 21 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disaffected | conj |
| 22 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 21 advanced | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 opposition | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 opposition | cc |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 opposition | case |
| 26 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advanced | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 land | punct |
| 28 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 30 | unarmed | unarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 land | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 enervated | cc |
| 32 | enervated | enervate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 unarmed | conj |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advanced | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 disaffected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disaffect | participle | the friends of arm's house | of all classes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | all classes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | join | to-infinitive | arm | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 4 | advance | past | arm | a unarmed land | without opposition; rapidly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | unarm | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | enervate | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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