Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 31
His first object was to extricate his family from the power of the king, and to remove it from Spain before his treason should be known; his next, to deprive the country of its remaining means of defence against an invader.
Who acts: first object, country · What happens: be, remove, know, deprive, mean · To what, where: power, object, Spain, treason
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 (first object, country), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 object | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 object | amod |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extricate | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 extricate | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 extricate | mark |
| 6 | extricate | extricate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extricate | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 power | det |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 extricate | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 power | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remove | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remove | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remove | mark |
| 18 | remove | remove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 extricate | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remove | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Spain | case |
| 21 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 remove | obl |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 27 known | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 treason | nmod:poss |
| 24 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 known | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 known | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 remove | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 next | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 next | nmod:poss |
| 30 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 extricate | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 deprive | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 deprive | mark |
| 33 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 extricate | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 country | det |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 remaining | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 remaining | nmod:poss |
| 38 | remaining | remaining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 country | nmod |
| 39 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 deprive | ccomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 defence | case |
| 41 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 means | obl |
| 42 | against | against | ADP | _ | 44 invader | case |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 invader | det |
| 44 | invader | invader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 defence | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 extricate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | nature's first object | the power of the king | nature's family obj; extricate property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remove | to-infinitive | nature's first object not said here | object | Spain | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from spain=Source | |||
| 3 | know | should · passive | king's treason | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | nature's first object not said here | king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | deprive | to-infinitive | nature's first object not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mean | present | the country of country's remaining | of defence against a invader | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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