Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 46
To commemorate his first victory, he changed the name of the promontory, and called it Gibel Taric, or the mountain of Taric; but, in process of time, the name has gradually been altered to Gibraltar.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: commemorate, change, call, alter, name, process · To what, where: first victory, name, Gibraltar, process, promontory, time · 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 (Theodomir), 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 commemorate | mark |
| 2 | commemorate | commemorate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 changed | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 victory | nmod:poss |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 victory | amod |
| 5 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 commemorate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 commemorate | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 name | det |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 promontory | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 promontory | det |
| 13 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 called | obj |
| 18 | Gibel | Gibel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Taric | compound |
| 19 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mountain | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 mountain | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Taric | case |
| 25 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mountain | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 altered | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 altered | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 but | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 process | case |
| 30 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 altered | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 process | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 process | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 name | det |
| 35 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 altered | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 altered | aux |
| 37 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 39 altered | advmod |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 altered | aux:pass |
| 39 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 changed | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Gibraltar | case |
| 41 | Gibraltar | Gibraltar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 altered | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commemorate | to-infinitive | Theodomir not said here | Theodomir's first victory | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | Theodomir | the name of the promontory | the mountain of Taric obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | past | Theodomir not said here | name | Gibel Taric xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | alter | present · perfect · passive | the name | Gibraltar | process of time | gradually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||
| 5 | name | the promontory | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | process | time | nom process «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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