Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 72
Ordering the gates to be barred and bolted, he prepared to receive the enemy.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: order, bar, bolt, prepare, receive · To what, where: gates, enemy
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 (Theodomir), 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 | Ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 prepared | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gates | det |
| 3 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ordering | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 barred | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 barred | aux:pass |
| 6 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gates | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bolted | cc |
| 8 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 barred | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ordering | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 prepared | nsubj |
| 11 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 receive | mark |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 prepared | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 enemy | det |
| 15 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | gerund | Theodomir not said here | the gates | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bar | to-infinitive · passive | Theodomir not said here | the gates not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 3 | bolt | participle | Theodomir not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | prepare | past | Theodomir | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | receive not said to happen | to-infinitive | Theodomir not said here | the enemy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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