Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 39
It was called the rock of Calpe, and, like the opposite rock of Ceuta, commanded the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Who acts: opposite rock · What happens: call, command · To what, where: collusion, entrance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opposite rock), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Calpe | case |
| 7 | Calpe | Calpe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rock | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 commanded | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rock | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 13 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rock | amod |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commanded | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ceuta | case |
| 16 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rock | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rock | punct |
| 18 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 entrance | det |
| 20 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 commanded | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sea | det |
| 23 | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sea | compound |
| 24 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 commanded | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | collusion | the rock of Calpe xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the opposite rock of Ceuta | the entrance | to the Mediterranean Sea | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent entrance=Eventuality |
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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