Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 11
The prince encamped not far from the bay which spreads itself out before the promontory.
Who acts: prince, bay · What happens: not encamp, spread out · To what, where: bay, country, promontory
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, bay), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 encamped | nsubj |
| 3 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 encamped | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 encamped | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bay | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bay | det |
| 8 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 encamped | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 spreads | nsubj |
| 10 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bay | acl:relcl |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 spreads | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 spreads | compound:prt |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 promontory | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 promontory | det |
| 15 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spreads | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 encamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not encamp | past | the prince | the bay | far property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spread out | present | the bay | country | the promontory | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme before promontory=Destination |
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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