Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 26
Embarking at Cadiz, he passed over to Africa with all his people and effects, to regulate his government in that country.
Who acts: Cadiz · What happens: embark, pass over, regulate · To what, where: Cadiz, Africa, government, country
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadiz), 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 | Embarking | embark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 Cadiz | case |
| 3 | Cadiz | Cadiz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Embarking | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Embarking | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 passed | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Africa | case |
| 9 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 people | nmod:poss |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 effects | cc |
| 15 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 people | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 regulate | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 regulate | mark |
| 18 | regulate | regulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 passed | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 government | nmod:poss |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 regulate | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 country | det |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 regulate | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embark | gerund | Cadiz not said here | Cadiz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass over | past | Cadiz | Africa | with Cadiz's people and effects | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to africa=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | regulate | to-infinitive | Cadiz not said here | Cadiz's government | that country | tree rules |
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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