Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 48

It seemed, in fact, as if the millennium were dawning upon the land; for the sword was beaten into a ploughshare, and the spear into a pruning hook.

Who acts: It, millennium · What happens: seem, dawn, beat · To what, where: land, spear

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 (It, millennium), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fact	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dawning	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 dawning	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 dawning	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 millennium	det
10	millennium	millennium	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dawning	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dawning	aux
12	dawning	dawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dawning	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 beaten	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 sword	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sword	det
19	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaten	obl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 beaten	aux:pass
21	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seemed	parataxis
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 ploughshare	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ploughshare	det
24	ploughshare	ploughshare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaten	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spear	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 spear	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spear	det
28	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaten	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 hook	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hook	det
31	pruning	pruning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hook	compound
32	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spear	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It			in fact	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in fact=Attribute
2	dawn	past · progressive	the millennium		the land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Location
3	beat	past · passive		the spear into a pruning hook		for the sword; into a ploughshare	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: into ploughshare=Co-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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 48