Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 6

They drove before them the barbarous hordes, their predecessors; intermarried and incorporated themselves with the original inhabitants; and founded a powerful and splendid empire, comprising the Iberian peninsula, the ancient Narbonnaise, afterwards called Gallia Gotica, or Gothic Gaul, and a part of the African coast called Tingitania.

Who acts: Goths · What happens: drive, intermarry, incorporate, found, comprise, call · To what, where: Goths, powerful empire, Iberian peninsula, ancient Narbonnaise, part · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hordes	det
6	barbarous	barbarous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hordes	amod
7	hordes	horde	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 them	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 predecessors	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 predecessors	nmod:poss
10	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hordes	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 intermarried	punct
12	intermarried	intermarry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drove	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 incorporated	cc
14	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 intermarried	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 incorporated	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 inhabitants	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inhabitants	det
18	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 inhabitants	amod
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 incorporated	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 founded	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 founded	cc
22	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drove	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 empire	det
24	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 empire	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 splendid	cc
26	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 powerful	conj
27	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 founded	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comprising	punct
29	comprising	comprise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 founded	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 peninsula	det
31	Iberian	iberian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 peninsula	amod
32	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comprising	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Narbonnaise	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Narbonnaise	det
35	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Narbonnaise	amod
36	Narbonnaise	narbonnaise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comprising	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 called	punct
38	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	39 called	advmod
39	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 Narbonnaise	acl
40	Gallia	Gallia	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 called	xcomp
41	Gotica	Gotica	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Gallia	flat
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Gaul	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 Gaul	cc
44	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Gaul	amod
45	Gaul	Gaul	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 comprising	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 called	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 called	cc
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 part	det
49	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 called	nsubj:pass
50	of	of	ADP	_	53 coast	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 coast	det
52	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 coast	amod
53	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 part	nmod
54	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 founded	parataxis
55	Tingitania	Tingitania	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 called	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	Goths = goth		before struggle		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	intermarry	participle	Goths = goth not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	incorporate	participle	Goths = goth not said here	Goths = goth		with the original inhabitants	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient with inhabitant=Co-Patient
4	found	past	Goths = goth not said here	a powerful empire			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent empire=Patient
5	comprise	gerund	Goths = goth not said here	the Iberian peninsula		the ancient Narbonnaise obl; Gothic Gaul obj	tree rules
6	call	participle		the ancient Narbonnaise not said here		Gallia xcomp; afterwards property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	call	participle · passive		a part of the African coast		Tingitania xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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 6