Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 3

The camp was spread out in one of those pastoral valleys which lie at the feet of the Barbary hills, with the great range of the Atlas mountains towering in the distance.

Who acts: pastoral valleys, Atlas mountains · What happens: spread out, lie, tower · To what, where: camp, feet

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastoral valleys, Atlas mountains), 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 camp	det
2	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux:pass
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 spread	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 spread	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 valleys	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 valleys	det
10	pastoral	pastoral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 valleys	compound
11	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lie	nsubj
13	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 valleys	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 feet	det
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lie	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hills	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hills	det
19	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hills	compound
20	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feet	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 range	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 range	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 range	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 range	amod
25	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 mountains	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountains	det
28	Atlas	Atlas	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 mountains	compound
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 range	nmod
30	towering	tower	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 mountains	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 distance	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 distance	det
33	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 towering	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread out	past · passive		the camp		in one of that pastoral valleys	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination
2	lie	present	that pastoral valleys		the feet of the Barbary hills	with the great range of the Atlas mountains	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
3	tower	gerund	the Atlas mountains not said here			in the distance	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location

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 IX., sentence 3

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 3