Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 8

The very security and peace which he had produced throughout his dominions, by his precautions to abolish the means and habitudes of war, had effected a disastrous change in his character.

Who acts: precautions, the · What happens: produce, abolish, mean, affect · To what, where: security, habitudes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precautions, the), 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	3 security	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 security	advmod
3	security	security	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 produced	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 peace	cc
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 security	conj
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 produced	nsubj:pass
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 produced	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 produced	aux
9	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	12 dominions	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dominions	nmod:poss
12	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 produced	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 precautions	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 precautions	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 precautions	nmod:poss
16	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 produced	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 abolish	mark
18	abolish	abolish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 produced	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 means	nsubj
20	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 abolish	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 effected	cc
22	habitudes	habitude	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 effected	nsubj:pass
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 war	case
24	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 habitudes	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 habitudes	punct
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 effected	aux
27	effected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 means	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 change	det
29	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 change	amod
30	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 effected	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 character	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 character	nmod:poss
33	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 change	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 produced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	produce	past · perfect · passive	charm's precautions	the security and peace	throughout charm's dominions	which nsubj:pass; charm nsubj	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	abolish	to-infinitive	charm's precautions not said here				tree rules
3	mean	present	the				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	affect	past · perfect · passive		habitudes of war		a disastrous change obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer change=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/8/

🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 8