Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 4
On every side his eye revelled on the ruin of the country, on the wrecks of haughty Spain.
Who acts: eye · What happens: revell, ruin, wreck · To what, where: side, country, haughty Spain
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 (eye), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 revelled | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 revelled | nsubj |
| 6 | revelled | revell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ruin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruin | det |
| 9 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 revelled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ruin | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrecks | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 wrecks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wrecks | det |
| 16 | wrecks | wreck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 revelled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Spain | case |
| 18 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Spain | amod |
| 19 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wrecks | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 revelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revell | participle | Christian's eye | every side | on the ruin of the country; on the wrecks of haughty Spain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ruin | the country | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | wreck | haughty Spain | nom wreck «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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