Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 11
In that awful space of time passed before his thoughts all his errors and his crimes, and all the evil that had been predicted in the necromantic tower.
Who acts: time, Roderick · What happens: pass, predict, think, err, incriminate · To what, where: errors, thoughts, evil, necromantic tower, awful space
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Roderick), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 space | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 space | det |
| 3 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 space | amod |
| 4 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 space | nmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 thoughts | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | obl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 errors | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 errors | nmod:poss |
| 13 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crimes | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 errors | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 evil | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 evil | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 evil | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evil | det |
| 21 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 space | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 predicted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 predicted | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 predicted | aux:pass |
| 25 | predicted | predict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 evil | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 tower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tower | det |
| 28 | necromantic | necromantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tower | amod |
| 29 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 predicted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 space | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time not said here | Roderick's errors and Roderick's crimes | Roderick's thoughts | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before thought=Location | |||
| 2 | predict | past · perfect · passive | all evil | the necromantic tower | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | think | Roderick | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | err | Roderick | nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | incriminate | Roderick | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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