Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Tomb of Roderick., sentence 1
The venerable Sebastiano, Bishop of Salamanca, declares that the inscription on the tomb at Viseo, in Portugal, existed in his time, and that he had seen it.
Who acts: venerable Sebastiano, inscription, Sebastiano · What happens: declare, exist, see · To what, where: tomb
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Tomb of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (venerable Sebastiano, inscription, Sebastiano), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sebastiano | det |
| 2 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sebastiano | amod |
| 3 | Sebastiano | Sebastiano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 declares | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bishop | punct |
| 5 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sebastiano | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Salamanca | case |
| 7 | Salamanca | Salamanca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Bishop | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sebastiano | punct |
| 9 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 existed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inscription | det |
| 12 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 existed | nsubj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tomb | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tomb | det |
| 15 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inscription | nmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Viseo | case |
| 17 | Viseo | Viseo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 inscription | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Portugal | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Portugal | case |
| 20 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Viseo | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inscription | punct |
| 22 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 declares | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 existed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seen | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seen | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 seen | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seen | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 declares | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seen | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 declares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | present | the venerable Sebastiano | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | exist | past | the inscription on the tomb at Viseo and Portugal | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Sebastiano | tomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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