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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 33

At length, when generation after generation had sunk into the grave, and near two centuries had passed and gone, traces were said to be discovered that threw a light on the final fortunes of the unfortunate Roderick.

What happens: sink, pass, go, say, discover, throw · To what, where: generation, grave, traces, length, light, final fortunes · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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

caseoblpunctmarknsubj:passcasenmodauxaclcasedetoblpunctcccasenummodoblauxconjccconjpunctnsubj:passaux:passmarkaux:passxcompmarkccompdetobjcasedetamodoblcasedetamodnmodpunctrootAtADPlengthNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJgenerationNOUNafterADPgenerationNOUNhadAUXsunkVERBintoADPtheDETgraveNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnearADPtwoNUMcenturiesNOUNhadAUXpassedVERBandCCONJgoneVERB,PUNCTtracesNOUNwereAUXsaidVERBtoPARTbeAUXdiscoveredVERBthatSCONJthrewVERBaDETlightNOUNonADPtheDETfinalADJfortunesNOUNofADPtheDETunfortunateADJRoderickPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lengthcase
2lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing25 saidobl
3,,PUNCT_2 lengthpunct
4whenwhenSCONJ_9 sunkmark
5generationgenerationNOUNNumber=Sing9 sunknsubj:pass
6afterafterADP_7 generationcase
7generationgenerationNOUNNumber=Sing5 generationnmod
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sunkaux
9sunksinkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 lengthacl
10intointoADP_12 gravecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 gravedet
12gravegraveNOUNNumber=Sing9 sunkobl
13,,PUNCT_19 passedpunct
14andandCCONJ_19 passedcc
15nearnearADP_17 centuriescase
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card17 centuriesnummod
17centuriescenturyNOUNNumber=Plur19 passedobl
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 passedaux
19passedpassVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 sunkconj
20andandCCONJ_21 gonecc
21gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 passedconj
22,,PUNCT_2 lengthpunct
23tracestraceNOUNNumber=Plur25 saidnsubj:pass
24werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 saidaux:pass
25saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
26totoPART_28 discoveredmark
27bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf28 discoveredaux:pass
28discovereddiscoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 saidxcomp
29thatthatSCONJ_30 threwmark
30threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 discoveredccomp
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 lightdet
32lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing30 threwobj
33ononADP_36 fortunescase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 fortunesdet
35finalfinalADJDegree=Pos36 fortunesamod
36fortunesfortuneNOUNNumber=Plur30 threwobl
37ofofADP_40 Roderickcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 Roderickdet
39unfortunateunfortunateADJDegree=Pos40 Roderickamod
40RoderickRoderickPROPNNumber=Sing36 fortunesnmod
41..PUNCT_25 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sinkpast · perfect · passivegeneration after generationthe gravevn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2passpast · perfectcenturyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3goparticiplevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4say speech: assertpast · passivetraceslengthtree rules
5discoverto-infinitive · passivevn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Topic
6throwpasta lightthe final fortunes of the unfortunate Roderickvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on fortune=Destination

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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