Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 34
While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to check any movement on the part of the soldiery, they let loose the blind fury of the populace, by publishing the fatal mandate.
Who acts: two officers, officers · What happens: make, check, let, lose, publish, infuriate · To what, where: vigilant dispositions, movement, part, blind fury, fatal mandate, populace
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two officers, officers), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 therefore | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 While | punct |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 made | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 therefore | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 officers | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 officers | nummod |
| 7 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | vigilant | vigilant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dispositions | amod |
| 10 | dispositions | disposition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 check | mark |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 movement | det |
| 14 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 check | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 soldiery | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soldiery | det |
| 20 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 24 | loose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fury | det |
| 26 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fury | amod |
| 27 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loose | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 populace | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 populace | det |
| 30 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fury | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 publishing | punct |
| 32 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 33 publishing | mark |
| 33 | publishing | publish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 loose | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mandate | det |
| 35 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mandate | amod |
| 36 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 publishing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the two officers | vigilant dispositions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disposition=Product | ||||
| 2 | check | to-infinitive | the two officers not said here | any movement | the part of the soldiery | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | past | officers = officer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | officers = officer not said here | the blind fury of the populace | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fury=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | publish | gerund | officers = officer not said here | the fatal mandate | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Result | ||||
| 6 | infuriate | the populace | nom fury «feeling 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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