Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 37
He ordered that the head and body should be placed together upon a bier, and treated with becoming reverence.
Who acts: renegado · What happens: order, place, treat · To what, where: head, bier
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (renegado), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 placed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 body | cc |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | conj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 placed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 placed | aux:pass |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | ccomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 placed | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 bier | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bier | det |
| 14 | bier | bier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 treated | cc |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 reverence | case |
| 19 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reverence | compound |
| 20 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | renegado | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | place | should · passive | the head and body | a bier | together property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon bier=Destination | |||
| 3 | treat | participle | renegado not said here | with becoming reverence | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with reverence=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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