Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 12
For two centuries and a half the Gothic power remained unshaken, and the sceptre was wielded by twenty-five successive kings.
Who acts: Gothic power, five successive kings · What happens: remain, wield · To what, where: sceptre
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gothic power, five successive kings), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 centuries | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 centuries | nummod |
| 3 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remained | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 half | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 half | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 centuries | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 8 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 power | amod |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | unshaken | unshaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remained | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wielded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wielded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sceptre | det |
| 15 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wielded | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wielded | aux:pass |
| 17 | wielded | wield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 remained | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 kings | case |
| 19 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 five | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 twenty | punct |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 kings | nummod |
| 22 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kings | amod |
| 23 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wielded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the Gothic power | century | unshaken property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wield | past · passive | five successive kings | the sceptre | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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