Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 23

Policy, too, no longer required their agency; they had rendered their infamous service, and had no longer a country to betray: but they might turn and betray their employers.

Who acts: duplicity · What happens: require, render, have, betray, turn, service · To what, where: Policy, duplicity, country, employers

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duplicity), 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	Policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Policy	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Policy	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Policy	punct
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 required	advmod
7	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 agency	nmod:poss
9	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 required	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rendered	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rendered	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rendered	aux
13	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 required	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 service	nmod:poss
15	infamous	infamous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 service	amod
16	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rendered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 required	parataxis
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 longer	advmod
21	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 country	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 country	det
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 betray	mark
25	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 country	acl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 turn	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 turn	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turn	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 turn	aux
30	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 betray	cc
32	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 turn	conj
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 employers	nmod:poss
34	employers	employer	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 betray	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 required	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	require	past		Policy	duplicity's agency obj; long property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme agency=Precondition
2	render	past · perfect · passive		duplicity	duplicity's infamous service obj	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient service=Theme
3	have	past		a country		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
4	betray	to-infinitive		a country not said here		tree rules
5	turn	might	duplicity			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	betray	infinitive	duplicity not said here	duplicity's employers		tree rules
7	service		duplicity			nom service «act 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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 23