Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 63
The main object was to dethrone Don Roderick, and give the crown to the sons of the late King Witiza.
Who acts: main object · What happens: be, give · To what, where: crown, sons
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 (main object), 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 object | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 object | amod |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dethrone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dethrone | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dethrone | mark |
| 6 | dethrone | dethrone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dethrone | obj |
| 8 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Don | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dethrone | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crown | det |
| 13 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 sons | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sons | det |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Witiza | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Witiza | det |
| 19 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Witiza | amod |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Witiza | compound |
| 21 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dethrone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the main object | Don obj; dethrone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the main object not said here | the crown | the sons of the late King Witiza | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to son=Recipient |
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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