Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 18
The Spanish historians, however, have always denied its identity.
Who acts: Spanish historians · What happens: deny · To what, where: identity
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 (Spanish historians), 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 | 3 historians | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 historians | amod |
| 3 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 denied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 historians | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 denied | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 denied | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 denied | advmod |
| 9 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 identity | nmod:poss |
| 11 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 denied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 denied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | present · perfect | the Spanish historians | head's identity | always, however property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent identity=Eventuality |
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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