Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 10
A vast amount of treasure was likewise found, which had been brought by Roderick for the expenses of the war.
Who acts: Roderick · What happens: find, bring, amount · To what, where: vast amount, treasure
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 amount | det |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amount | amod |
| 3 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 treasure | case |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amount | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 8 found | advmod |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 brought | aux:pass |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Roderick | case |
| 15 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 expenses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 expenses | det |
| 18 | expenses | expense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brought | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 war | det |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 expenses | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | a vast amount of treasure | likewise property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Roderick | for the expenses of the war; which nsubj:pass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | amount | treasure | nom amount «possession 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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