Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 38
It has been believed by many that this was the veritable tomb of the monarch, and that in this hermitage he had finished his days in solitary penance.
Who acts: this, monarch · What happens: believe, be, finish · To what, where: soldier, veritable tomb, hermitage
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 (this, monarch), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 believed | aux:pass |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 many | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 believed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 tomb | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tomb | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tomb | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tomb | det |
| 11 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tomb | amod |
| 12 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 many | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 monarch | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monarch | det |
| 15 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tomb | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 finished | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 finished | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 finished | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hermitage | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hermitage | det |
| 21 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finished | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 finished | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 finished | aux |
| 24 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 believed | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 days | nmod:poss |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 finished | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 penance | case |
| 28 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 penance | amod |
| 29 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finished | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · perfect · passive | soldier | by many | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the veritable tomb | of the monarch | tree rules | |||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect | monarch | this hermitage | day | in solitary penance | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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