Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 8
Strict orders were again issued, prohibiting, on pain of death, all plunder excepting the camp of an enemy, or cities given up to pillage.
Who acts: plunder · What happens: issue, prohibit, except, give up, pain · To what, where: Strict orders, pain, camp, cities, pillage, death
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plunder), 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 | Strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 orders | amod |
| 2 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 issued | aux:pass |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 issued | advmod |
| 5 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prohibiting | punct |
| 7 | prohibiting | prohibit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 issued | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pain | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pain | case |
| 10 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prohibiting | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pain | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plunder | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 plunder | det |
| 15 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pain | conj |
| 16 | excepting | except | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 plunder | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 camp | det |
| 18 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excepting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 enemy | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 enemy | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 camp | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cities | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 cities | cc |
| 24 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 issued | obl |
| 25 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cities | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 given | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 pillage | case |
| 28 | pillage | pillage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 given | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past · passive | Strict orders | again | cities obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | prohibit | gerund | pain of death and all plunder | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer pain=Theme | |||||
| 3 | except | gerund | all plunder not said here | the camp of a enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | participle | cities not said here | pillage | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pillage=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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