Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 19
Above his head was a canopy of cloth of gold embossed with armorial devices, and studded with precious stones.
What happens: be, emboss, stud · To what, where: canopy, head, gold
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 canopy | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 canopy | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 canopy | det |
| 6 | canopy | canopy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 canopy | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cloth | nmod |
| 11 | embossed | emboss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gold | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 devices | case |
| 13 | armorial | armorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 devices | compound |
| 14 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 embossed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 studded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 studded | cc |
| 17 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 canopy | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 stones | case |
| 19 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stones | amod |
| 20 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 studded | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 canopy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a canopy | king's head | of cloth of gold | tree rules | |||
| 2 | emboss | participle | gold not said here | with armorial devices | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with device=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stud | participle | with precious stones | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with stone=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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