Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 8
Sprung from a union of warrior races, reared and nurtured amidst the din of arms, the Gothic Spaniards, if they may so be termed, were a warlike, unquiet, yet high-minded and heroic people.
Who acts: Sprung, arms · What happens: rear, nurture, term, be, din · To what, where: warrior races, Spaniards, warlike people
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 (Sprung, arms), 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 | Sprung | Sprung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 people | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 union | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 union | det |
| 4 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sprung | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 races | case |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 races | compound |
| 7 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 union | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reared | punct |
| 9 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 races | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nurtured | cc |
| 11 | nurtured | nurture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reared | conj |
| 12 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 14 din | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 din | det |
| 14 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nurtured | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 din | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Spaniards | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Spaniards | det |
| 19 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Spaniards | amod |
| 20 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 arms | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 termed | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 termed | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 termed | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 termed | aux |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 termed | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 termed | aux:pass |
| 27 | termed | term | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nurtured | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sprung | punct |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 people | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 people | det |
| 31 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 people | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 unquiet | punct |
| 33 | unquiet | unquiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 warlike | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 minded | punct |
| 35 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 38 minded | cc |
| 36 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 minded | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 high | punct |
| 38 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 warlike | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 heroic | cc |
| 40 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 minded | conj |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | participle | warrior races not said here | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nurture | participle | amidst the din of arms and the Gothic Spaniards | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | term | may · passive | Spaniards = spaniard | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Sprung from a union of warrior races | a warlike people | yet | tree rules | |||
| 5 | din | arms and the Gothic Spaniards | nom din «event 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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