Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 125
He ordered strict search to be made by the soldiery, and he obliged the countess to be always present.
Who acts: astrologer, soldiery · What happens: order, make, oblige, be · To what, where: strict search, countess
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (astrologer, soldiery), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 search | amod |
| 4 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 search | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 soldiery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldiery | det |
| 10 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obliged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 obliged | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | nsubj |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 countess | det |
| 16 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obliged | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 present | cop |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 present | advmod |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countess | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | astrologer | strict search | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | the soldiery | strict search not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past | astrologer | the countess | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | astrologer not said here | the countess not said here | always, present property | tree rules |
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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