Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 25
“I spake,” said he, “as the chief of your armies, under whose orders and banners this conquest was achieved.
Who acts: MUZA, orders, chief · What happens: speak, say, achieve, order · To what, where: conquest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MUZA, orders, chief), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 spake | nsubj |
| 3 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chief | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 chief | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 armies | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 armies | nmod:poss |
| 15 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chief | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 orders | punct |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 orders | case |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 orders | nmod:poss |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chief | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 banners | cc |
| 21 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 orders | conj |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 conquest | det |
| 23 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 achieved | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 achieved | aux:pass |
| 25 | achieved | achieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 orders | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | MUZA | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | MUZA | the chief of your armies and the chief of your armies and the chief's orders and banners's orders and banners ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | achieve in a quote | past · passive | the chief of your armies and the chief of armies and orders's orders and banners's orders and banners not said here | this conquest | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | the chief of your armies and the chief of your armies and orders and banners's orders and banners | nom order «communication 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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