Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Tomb of Roderick., sentence 2
A particular account of the exile and hermit life of Roderick is furnished by Berganza, on the authority of Portuguese chronicles.
Who acts: Berganza · What happens: furnish, account · To what, where: particular account, authority, exile
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 (Berganza), 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 account | det |
| 2 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 account | amod |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 exile | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 exile | det |
| 6 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 account | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 life | cc |
| 8 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 life | compound |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exile | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Roderick | case |
| 11 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 life | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 furnished | aux:pass |
| 13 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Berganza | case |
| 15 | Berganza | Berganza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 furnished | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 authority | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 authority | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 authority | det |
| 19 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 furnished | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 chronicles | case |
| 21 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chronicles | amod |
| 22 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 authority | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | present · passive | Berganza | a particular account of the exile and hermit life of Roderick | the authority of Portuguese chronicles | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | account | the exile and hermit life of Roderick | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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