Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 1
As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as well as least credible points in the history of Don Roderick, it may be well to fortify or buttress it by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo.
Who acts: history, city · What happens: be, buttress, account, marvel · To what, where: one, history, marvel
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history, city), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 6 | necromantic | necromantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tower | amod |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 famous | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 famous | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 famous | advmod |
| 13 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 19 points | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 points | advmod |
| 18 | credible | credible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 points | amod |
| 19 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 famous | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 history | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 history | det |
| 22 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 points | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Don | case |
| 24 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 history | nmod |
| 25 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Don | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fortify | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 fortify | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fortify | cop |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 fortify | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 fortify | mark |
| 32 | fortify | fortify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 buttress | cc |
| 34 | buttress | buttress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fortify | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 buttress | obj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 account | case |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 account | det |
| 38 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 buttress | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 marvel | case |
| 40 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 marvel | det |
| 41 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 account | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 city | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 city | det |
| 44 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 marvel | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Toledo | case |
| 46 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 city | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | one | as the story of the necromantic tower; of the famous as credible points in the history of Don | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | may | history | fortify, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buttress | infinitive | history not said here | history | by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 4 | account | another marvel of the city of Toledo | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | marvel | the city of Toledo | nom marvel «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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