Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 12
Or if a writer from among the conquerors undertook to touch upon the theme, it was embellished with all the wild extravagances of an oriental imagination; which afterwards stole into the graver works of the monkish historians.
Who acts: writer · What happens: undertake, touch, embellish, steal, work · To what, where: writer, graver
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (writer), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 embellished | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 undertook | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 writer | det |
| 4 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 undertook | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 conquerors | case |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 conquerors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conquerors | det |
| 8 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 writer | nmod |
| 9 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 embellished | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 touch | mark |
| 11 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 undertook | xcomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 theme | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 theme | det |
| 14 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touch | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 undertook | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 embellished | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 embellished | aux:pass |
| 18 | embellished | embellish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 extravagances | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 extravagances | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 extravagances | det |
| 22 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 extravagances | amod |
| 23 | extravagances | extravagance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 embellished | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 imagination | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 imagination | det |
| 26 | oriental | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 imagination | amod |
| 27 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 extravagances | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 stole | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 stole | nsubj |
| 30 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 31 stole | advmod |
| 31 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 embellished | parataxis |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 graver | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 graver | det |
| 34 | graver | graver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 works | obl |
| 35 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 stole | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 historians | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 historians | det |
| 38 | monkish | monkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 historians | amod |
| 39 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 works | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 embellished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake a condition, not said to happen | past | a writer from the conquerors | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | a writer from the conquerors not said here | upon the theme | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | embellish | past · passive | writer | with all wild extravagances of a oriental imagination | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with extravagance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steal | past | which nsubj; afterwards property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | work | present | the graver | of the monkish historians | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into graver=Product |
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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