Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 26
The ancient Moorish chroniclers relate many awful portents, and strange and mysterious visions, which appeared to the commanders of either army during this anxious night.
Who acts: ancient Moorish chroniclers, strange visions · What happens: relate, appear · To what, where: many awful portents
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 (ancient Moorish chroniclers, strange visions), 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 | 4 chroniclers | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chroniclers | amod |
| 3 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chroniclers | amod |
| 4 | chroniclers | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relate | nsubj |
| 5 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portents | amod |
| 7 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portents | amod |
| 8 | portents | portent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 visions | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 visions | cc |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 visions | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mysterious | cc |
| 13 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strange | conj |
| 14 | visions | vision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 visions | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 commanders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 commanders | det |
| 20 | commanders | commander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appeared | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 army | case |
| 22 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 23 army | cc:preconj |
| 23 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commanders | nmod |
| 24 | during | during | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 night | det |
| 26 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | amod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 relate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | the ancient Moorish chroniclers | many awful portents | strange visions obl | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portent=Theme | |||
| 2 | appear | past | strange visions | night | to the commanders of army | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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