Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 9
There were massy chains, and rare jewels of gold; pearls and precious stones; rich silks and brocades, and all other luxurious decorations in which the Gothic nobles had indulged in the latter times of their degeneracy.
Who acts: massy chains · What happens: be, indulge · To what, where: Gothic nobles, other luxurious decorations
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 (massy chains), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | massy | massy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chains | amod |
| 4 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jewels | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 jewels | cc |
| 7 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jewels | amod |
| 8 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chains | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jewels | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 pearls | punct |
| 12 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stones | cc |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stones | amod |
| 15 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pearls | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 silks | punct |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 silks | amod |
| 18 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brocades | cc |
| 20 | brocades | brocade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 silks | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 decorations | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 decorations | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 decorations | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 decorations | amod |
| 25 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 decorations | amod |
| 26 | decorations | decoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 silks | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 indulged | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 nobles | det |
| 30 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nobles | amod |
| 31 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 indulged | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 indulged | aux |
| 33 | indulged | indulge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 decorations | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 times | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 times | det |
| 36 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 times | amod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 indulged | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 degeneracy | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 degeneracy | nmod:poss |
| 40 | degeneracy | degeneracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 times | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | massy chains rare jewels of gold | there | pearls and precious stones nsubj; rich silks and brocades and all other luxurious decorations parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | indulge | past · perfect · passive | the Gothic nobles | all other luxurious decorations | time | tree rules |
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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