Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 5

In the fifth century the Goths, who were then the allies of Rome, undertook the reconquest of Iberia, and succeeded, after a desperate struggle of three years’ duration.

Who acts: Goths, three years · What happens: be, undertake, succeed, struggle · To what, where: allies, reconquest

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 (Goths, three years), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertook	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Goths	det
6	Goths	Goth	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 undertook	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 allies	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 allies	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 allies	cop
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 allies	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 allies	det
12	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Goths	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Rome	case
14	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 allies	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Goths	punct
16	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reconquest	det
18	reconquest	reconquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 undertook	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Iberia	case
20	Iberia	Iberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reconquest	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 succeeded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 succeeded	cc
23	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 undertook	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 struggle	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	28 struggle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 struggle	det
27	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 struggle	amod
28	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 succeeded	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 struggle	nmod
32	’	's	PART	_	31 years	case
33	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 struggle	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Goths	the allies	then	of Rome	tree rules
2	undertake	past	the Goths	the reconquest of Iberia	century		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reconquest=Eventuality
3	succeed	past	the Goths not said here		after a desperate struggle of three years and duration		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	struggle		three years				nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 5