Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 7

The Alcayde gave orders to ring the alarm bells, light signal fires on the hill tops, and rouse the country; for the coast was subject to cruel maraudings from the Barbary cruisers.

Who acts: Alcayde, coast · What happens: give, ring, rouse, be · To what, where: orders, alarm bells, country

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alcayde, coast), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Alcayde	det
2	Alcayde	Alcayde	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ring	mark
6	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
8	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bells	compound
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ring	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fires	punct
11	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fires	amod
12	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fires	compound
13	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bells	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 tops	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tops	det
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tops	compound
17	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fires	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rouse	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rouse	cc
20	rouse	rouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ring	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 country	det
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rouse	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 subject	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 subject	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coast	det
26	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 subject	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 subject	cop
28	subject	subject	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 maraudings	case
30	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maraudings	amod
31	maraudings	marauding	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 subject	obl
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 cruisers	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cruisers	det
34	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 cruisers	compound
35	cruisers	cruiser	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 maraudings	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Alcayde	orders		tree rules
2	ring	to-infinitive	the Alcayde not said here	the alarm bells and light signal fires on the hill tops		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	rouse	infinitive	the Alcayde not said here	the country		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
4	is	past	the coast		to cruel maraudings from the Barbary cruisers; subject 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 7