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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 sunk | mark |
| 5 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 generation | case |
| 7 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 generation | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sunk | aux |
| 9 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunk | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 centuries | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 centuries | nummod |
| 17 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | aux |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sunk | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 passed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 23 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | aux:pass |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 discovered | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 discovered | aux:pass |
| 28 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 said | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 threw | mark |
| 30 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 discovered | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 light | det |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 threw | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 fortunes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fortunes | det |
| 35 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fortunes | amod |
| 36 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 threw | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Roderick | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Roderick | det |
| 39 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Roderick | amod |
| 40 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 fortunes | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · perfect · passive | generation after generation | the grave | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | century | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | traces | length | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | discover | to-infinitive · passive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | throw | past | a light | the final fortunes of the unfortunate Roderick | vn 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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