Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 9

To protect this terrible mystery he closed the entrance to the edifice with a ponderous door of iron, secured by a great lock of steel; and he left a command that every king who should succeed him should add another lock to the portal; denouncing woe and destruction on him who should eventually unfold the secret of the tower.

Who acts: Libya, king · What happens: protect, close, secure, leave, succeed, add · To what, where: terrible mystery, ponderous door, command, Libya, woe, secret

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Libya, king), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 left	advcl
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mystery	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mystery	amod
5	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 closed	nsubj
7	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mystery	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 entrance	det
9	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 edifice	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 edifice	det
12	edifice	edifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 door	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 door	det
15	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 iron	case
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 secured	punct
20	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 door	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 lock	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lock	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lock	amod
24	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 secured	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 steel	case
26	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lock	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 command	det
32	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 add	obj
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 add	nsubj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 succeed	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 succeed	aux
38	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 king	acl:relcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 succeed	obj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 add	aux
41	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 command	acl:relcl
42	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	43 lock	det
43	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 add	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 portal	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 portal	det
46	portal	portal	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 add	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 denouncing	punct
48	denouncing	denounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 left	advcl
49	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 denouncing	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 destruction	cc
51	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 woe	conj
52	on	on	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 denouncing	obl
54	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 unfold	nsubj
55	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 unfold	aux
56	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	57 unfold	advmod
57	unfold	unfold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 denouncing	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 secret	det
59	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 unfold	obj
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 tower	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 tower	det
62	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 secret	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive	Libya not said here	this terrible mystery	to the edifice; with a ponderous door of iron; the entrance obj	tree rules
2	close	past	Libya	this terrible mystery not said here		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Patient
3	secure	participle		a ponderous door of iron not said here	by a great lock of steel	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	leave	past	Libya	a command		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
5	succeed	should	every king	Libya		tree rules
6	add speech: assert	should	every king	a command	to the portal; another lock obj	tree rules
7	denounce	gerund	Libya not said here	woe and destruction	on Libya	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Theme
8	unfold	should		the secret of the tower	who nsubj; eventually property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent secret=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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 9