Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 7
A new nation was, in a manner, produced by this mixture of the Goths and Iberians.
Who acts: new nation · What happens: be, produce · To what, where: manner
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 (new nation), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nation | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nation | amod |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manner | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 manner | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 manner | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 manner | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 manner | det |
| 8 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 produced | punct |
| 10 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 manner | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 mixture | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mixture | det |
| 13 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Goths | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Goths | det |
| 16 | Goths | Goth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 mixture | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Iberians | cc |
| 18 | Iberians | Iberian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Goths | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 manner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a new nation | a manner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | produce | participle | a manner not said here | by this mixture of the Goths and Iberians | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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