Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 8
As he passed through the streets he ordered purses of gold to be thrown among the populace, who rent the air with acclamations.
Who acts: MUZA, purses, populace · What happens: pass, order, throw, rend · To what, where: streets, purses, populace, air
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, purses, populace), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 passed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 streets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 streets | acl:relcl |
| 9 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 purses | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 thrown | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 populace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 populace | det |
| 17 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rent | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 rent | nsubj |
| 20 | rent | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 populace | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rent | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 acclamations | case |
| 24 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | MUZA | the streets | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location | ||||
| 2 | order | past | MUZA | purses of gold | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | purses of gold not said here | the populace | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: among populace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | rend | past | the populace | the air | with acclamations | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with acclamation=Instrument |
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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