Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 32
Year after year, however, elapsed, and nothing was heard of Don Roderick; yet, like Sebastian of Portugal, and Arthur of England, his name continued to be a rallying point for popular faith, and the mystery of his end to give rise to romantic fables.
Who acts: name, mystery, England · What happens: elapse, hear, continue, be, give, name · To what, where: nothing, rallying point, rise, romantic fables
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 (name, mystery, England), 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 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 elapsed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Year | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 elapsed | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 elapsed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 elapsed | punct |
| 7 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 elapsed | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Don | case |
| 14 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 15 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Don | flat |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 yet | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 elapsed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sebastian | punct |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 Sebastian | case |
| 20 | Sebastian | Sebastian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 elapsed | obl:agent |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Portugal | case |
| 22 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sebastian | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Arthur | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Arthur | cc |
| 25 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sebastian | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 England | case |
| 27 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Arthur | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 continued | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 continued | nsubj |
| 31 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Sebastian | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 point | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 point | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 point | det |
| 35 | rallying | rallying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 point | compound |
| 36 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 continued | ccomp |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 faith | case |
| 38 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 faith | amod |
| 39 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 point | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 give | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 give | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 mystery | det |
| 43 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 give | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 end | nmod:poss |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 mystery | nmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 give | mark |
| 48 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 elapsed | conj |
| 49 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 give | obj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 fables | case |
| 51 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fables | amod |
| 52 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 give | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 elapsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | participle | yet; year | Sebastian of Portugal and Arthur of England obl:agent; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | nothing | of Don | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | England's name | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | England's name not said here | a rallying point | for popular faith | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | to-infinitive | the mystery of mystery's end | rise | romantic fables | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to fable=Recipient | |||
| 6 | name | England | nom name «communication 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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