Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 67

The example of the reverend prelate determined all who might otherwise have wavered, and they bound themselves by dreadful oaths to be true to the conspiracy.

Who acts: example, wealth · What happens: determine, waver, bound, be, exemplify · To what, where: all, wealth, reverend prelate

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 (example, wealth), 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 example	det
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 determined	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 prelate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prelate	det
5	reverend	reverend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prelate	compound
6	prelate	prelate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 example	nmod
7	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 determined	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 wavered	nsubj:pass
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wavered	aux
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	13 wavered	advmod
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wavered	aux
13	wavered	waver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 all	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bound	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bound	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bound	nsubj
17	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 determined	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 bound	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 oaths	case
20	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 oaths	amod
21	oaths	oath	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bound	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 true	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 true	cop
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bound	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 conspiracy	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 conspiracy	det
27	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 true	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	past	the example of the reverend prelate	all		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic
2	waver	might · perfect · passive			who nsubj:pass; otherwise property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	bound	present	wealth	wealth	by dreadful oaths	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location themselves=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	wealth not said here		to the conspiracy; true property	tree rules
5	exemplify			the reverend prelate		nom example «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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 67