Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 48
Measures of Don Roderick on hearing of the Invasion.—Expedition of Ataulpho.—Vision of Taric 94
Who acts: Invasion · What happens: measure, hear · To what, where: Measures, Don
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 (Invasion), 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 | Measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Don | case |
| 3 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Measures | nmod |
| 4 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Don | flat |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 hearing | case |
| 6 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Don | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Invasion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Invasion | det |
| 9 | Invasion | Invasion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hearing | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Measures | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Expedition | punct |
| 12 | Expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Measures | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ataulpho | case |
| 14 | Ataulpho | Ataulpho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Expedition | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Measures | punct |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vision | punct |
| 17 | Vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Measures | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Taric | case |
| 19 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Vision | nmod |
| 20 | 94 | 94 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 Taric | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | measure | Don on hearing of the Invasion | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | hear | the Invasion | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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