Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 7

Taric was represented as rash, arbitrary, and prodigal, and as injuring the discipline of the army, by sometimes treating it with extreme rigour, and at other times giving way to licentiousness and profusion.

What happens: represent, injure, treat, give, discipline · To what, where: Taric, discipline, way, licentiousness, army

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: 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	Taric	Taric	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 represented	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 represented	aux:pass
3	represented	represent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 rash	case
5	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 represented	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arbitrary	punct
7	arbitrary	arbitrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rash	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prodigal	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prodigal	cc
10	prodigal	prodigal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rash	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 injuring	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 injuring	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 injuring	mark
14	injuring	injure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 represented	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 discipline	det
16	discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 injuring	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 army	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 army	det
19	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 discipline	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 treating	punct
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 treating	mark
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 treating	advmod
23	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 injuring	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 treating	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 rigour	case
26	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 rigour	amod
27	rigour	rigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treating	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 giving	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 giving	cc
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 times	case
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 times	amod
32	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 giving	obl
33	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 injuring	conj
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 giving	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 licentiousness	case
36	licentiousness	licentiousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 giving	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 profusion	cc
38	profusion	profusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 licentiousness	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 represented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	represent	past · passive	Taric			as rash and arbitrary and prodigal	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as rash=Attribute
2	injure	gerund	the discipline of the army				tree rules
3	treat	gerund	discipline			with extreme rigour; sometimes property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with rigour=Theme
4	give	gerund	way	licentiousness and profusion	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to licentiousness=Recipient
5	discipline		the army				nom discipline «cognition 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 7

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 7