Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 29

The plan of Count Julian was to hurl King Roderick from his throne, and to deliver all Spain into the hands of the infidels.

Who acts: plan · What happens: be, deliver, plan · To what, where: throne, Spain, hands, Count Julian

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), 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 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurl	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Julian	case
4	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Julian	compound
5	Julian	Julian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 plan	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hurl	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hurl	mark
8	hurl	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hurl	obj
10	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 King	flat
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 throne	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 throne	nmod:poss
13	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurl	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 deliver	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deliver	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 deliver	mark
17	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hurl	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 Spain	det
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 deliver	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hands	det
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 deliver	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 infidels	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 infidels	det
25	infidels	infidel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hands	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hurl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the plan of Count Julian		king's throne	King obj; hurl property	tree rules
2	deliver	to-infinitive	the plan of Count Julian not said here	all Spain	the hands of the infidels		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spain=Patient
3	plan			Count Julian			nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=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, Chapter VIII., sentence 29

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 29