Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 19
Take with thee all the troops thou hast brought from Africa; reduce the city of Seville again to subjection, and plant thy standard upon its alcazar.
Who acts: you, thou, troops · What happens: take, have, bring, reduce, plant · To what, where: troops, Africa, city, subjection, standard, alcazar
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, troops), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 thee | case |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Take | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 troops | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 troops | det |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Take | iobj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hast | nsubj |
| 8 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 troops | acl:relcl |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hast | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 reduce | punct |
| 13 | reduce | reduce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reduce | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Seville | case |
| 17 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 reduce | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 subjection | case |
| 20 | subjection | subjection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reduce | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 plant | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 plant | cc |
| 23 | plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 standard | nmod:poss |
| 25 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plant | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 alcazar | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 alcazar | nmod:poss |
| 28 | alcazar | alcazar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plant | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | all troops | with thee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troops=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | thou | all troops not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | all troops not said here | Africa | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from africa=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | reduce | infinitive | you not said here | the city of Seville | again | to subjection goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer city=Patient to subjection=Goal | ||
| 5 | plant | present | thy standard | standard's alcazar | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent standard=Theme upon alcazar=Destination |
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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