Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 9
He made a hasty levy, and took the field with a scantily equipped and undisciplined host, but was easily routed and made prisoner, and the whole kingdom submitted to Don Roderick.
Who acts: arm · What happens: make, take, equip, rout, submit · To what, where: hasty levy, field, prisoner, whole kingdom
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 levy | det |
| 4 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 levy | amod |
| 5 | levy | levy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 host | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 host | det |
| 13 | scantily | scantily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 host | amod |
| 14 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 host | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 undisciplined | cc |
| 16 | undisciplined | undisciplined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 equipped | conj |
| 17 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 routed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 routed | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 routed | aux:pass |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 routed | advmod |
| 22 | routed | rout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 routed | conj |
| 25 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kingdom | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kingdom | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kingdom | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 kingdom | amod |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | parataxis |
| 31 | submitted | submit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 kingdom | acl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Don | case |
| 33 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 submitted | obl:agent |
| 34 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Don | flat |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | arm | a hasty levy | the whole kingdom parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levy=Product | |||
| 2 | take | past | arm not said here | the field | with a scantily equipped host | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | |||
| 3 | equip | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rout | past · passive | easily property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | make | participle | prisoner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | submit | participle | the whole kingdom not said here | Don obl:agent | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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