Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 86
Summoning her officers, therefore, she informed them of their danger, and commanded them to put those Moors to death.
Who acts: Frandina · What happens: summon, inform, command, put · To what, where: officers, Moors · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frandina), 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 | Summoning | summon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 informed | advcl |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 officers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Summoning | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Summoning | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Summoning | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 informed | nsubj |
| 8 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 informed | iobj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 danger | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 danger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 informed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 commanded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 commanded | cc |
| 15 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 informed | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 commanded | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 commanded | advcl |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 Moors | det |
| 20 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | gerund | Frandina not said here | Frandina's officers | therefore property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | Frandina | officers = officer | of officers's danger | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of danger=Topic | |||
| 3 | command | past | Frandina not said here | officers = officer | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | Frandina not said here | that Moors | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent moor=Goal |
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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