Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 102
[23] This name was given to it subsequently by the Arabs.
Who acts: Arabs · What happens: give · To what, where: name, c.
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 (Arabs), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 given | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 23 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 given | obl |
| 10 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Arabs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Arabs | det |
| 13 | Arabs | Arab | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the Arabs | this name | c. | 23 obl; subsequently property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to it=Recipient |
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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