Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 86
When Theodomir returned to the city, he made known the capitulation, and charged the inhabitants to pack up their effects during the night, and be ready to sally forth in the morning.
Who acts: Theodomir, inhabitants · What happens: return, make, know, charge, pack up, be · To what, where: capitulation, inhabitants, effects
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, inhabitants), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 made | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 capitulation | det |
| 12 | capitulation | capitulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 known | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 charged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 charged | cc |
| 15 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inhabitants | det |
| 17 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 charged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pack | mark |
| 19 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 charged | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 pack | compound:prt |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 effects | nmod:poss |
| 22 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pack | obj |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pack | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ready | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ready | cc |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ready | cop |
| 29 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 sally | mark |
| 31 | sally | sally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ready | xcomp |
| 32 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 31 sally | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 morning | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 morning | det |
| 35 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sally | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Theodomir | to the city result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Theodomir | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | Theodomir not said here | the capitulation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer capitulation=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | Theodomir not said here | the inhabitants | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location inhabitant=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pack up | to-infinitive | Theodomir not said here | inhabitants's effects | night | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme effect=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | infinitive | Theodomir not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sally | to-infinitive | Theodomir not said here | morning | forth property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | effect | inhabitants = inhabitant | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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