Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 11
In the time of the Moors this art, we are told, was publicly taught at their universities, the same as astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, and at no place was it cultivated with more success than at Toledo.
What happens: tell, teach, cultivate · To what, where: we, universities, art, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 taught | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Moors | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Moors | det |
| 6 | Moors | Moor | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 art | det |
| 8 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Moors | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 taught | aux:pass |
| 15 | publicly | publicly | ADV | _ | 16 taught | advmod |
| 16 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 universities | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 universities | nmod:poss |
| 19 | universities | university | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 taught | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 same | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 universities | amod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 astronomy | case |
| 24 | astronomy | astronomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 same | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 philosophy | punct |
| 26 | philosophy | philosophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 astronomy | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mathematics | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mathematics | cc |
| 29 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 astronomy | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 cultivated | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 cultivated | cc |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 place | case |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 place | det |
| 34 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cultivated | obl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 cultivated | aux:pass |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 cultivated | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 taught | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 success | case |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 success | amod |
| 40 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cultivated | obl |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 43 Toledo | case |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 Toledo | case |
| 43 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 success | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past · passive | caves's universities | time | publicly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||
| 3 | cultivate | past · passive | art | no place | with more success than Toledo | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with success=Material |
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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