Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 26
The actions of the soldier are the actions of the commander.
Who acts: actions, soldier · What happens: be, act · To what, where: actions
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 (actions, soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 actions | det |
| 2 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 actions | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soldier | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 actions | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 actions | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 actions | det |
| 8 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 commander | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 commander | det |
| 11 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 actions | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 actions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the actions of the soldier | the actions | of the commander | tree rules | |||
| 2 | act | the soldier | nom action «act intransitive»: of=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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