Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 16
To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion of Spanish history, is to discard some of its most beautiful, instructive, and national features; it is to judge of Spain by the standard of probability suited to tamer and more prosaic countries.
Who acts: history · What happens: be, suit, feature · To what, where: standard
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 (history), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 discard | mark |
| 2 | discard | discard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 discard | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 discard | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 wild | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wild | nsubj |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 discard | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marvellous | cc |
| 10 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wild | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 portion | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 portion | det |
| 13 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wild | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 history | case |
| 15 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 history | amod |
| 16 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 portion | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 discard | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 discard | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 discard | mark |
| 20 | discard | discard | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 discard | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 features | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 features | nmod:poss |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 features | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 instructive | punct |
| 27 | instructive | instructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beautiful | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 features | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 features | cc |
| 30 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 features | amod |
| 31 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 some | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 judge | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 judge | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 judge | cop |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 judge | mark |
| 36 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 discard | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Spain | case |
| 38 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 judge | obl |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 standard | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 standard | det |
| 41 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 judge | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 probability | case |
| 43 | probability | probability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 standard | nmod |
| 44 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 standard | acl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 tamer | case |
| 46 | tamer | tamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 suited | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 countries | cc |
| 48 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 prosaic | advmod |
| 49 | prosaic | prosaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 countries | amod |
| 50 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 tamer | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 discard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | discard advcl; discard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | history | of Spain; by the standard of probability; judge property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suit | participle | the standard of probability not said here | to tamer and prosaic countries | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feature | history | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=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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