Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 17
Spain is virtually a land of poetry and romance, where every-day life partakes of adventure, and where the least agitation or excitement carries every thing up into extravagant enterprise and daring exploit.
Who acts: Spain, day life, least agitation · What happens: be, partake, carry up, dare · To what, where: land, thing, extravagant enterprise, exploit
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 (Spain, day life, least agitation), 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 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 land | cop |
| 3 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 5 land | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 poetry | case |
| 7 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 romance | cc |
| 9 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 partakes | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 partakes | advmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 every | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 life | compound |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 partakes | nsubj |
| 16 | partakes | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 land | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 adventure | case |
| 18 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 partakes | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carries | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 carries | cc |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 carries | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 agitation | det |
| 23 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 agitation | amod |
| 24 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | nsubj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 excitement | cc |
| 26 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 agitation | conj |
| 27 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 partakes | conj |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 thing | det |
| 29 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADV | _ | 27 carries | advmod |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 enterprise | case |
| 32 | extravagant | extravagant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 enterprise | amod |
| 33 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carries | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 daring | cc |
| 35 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 enterprise | conj |
| 36 | exploit | exploit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 daring | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Spain | a land and romance | of poetry; romance conj; virtually property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | partake | present | day life | of adventure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry up | present | the least agitation or excitement | every thing | extravagant enterprise | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | dare | gerund | the least agitation or excitement not said here | exploit | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exploit=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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