Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 12
Hence this city has ever been darkly renowned for mystic science; insomuch that the magic art was called by the French, and by other nations, the Arte Toledana.
Who acts: city, French · What happens: have, be, call · To what, where: darkly renowned, magic art · 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: who acts (city, French), 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 | Hence | hence | ADV | _ | 3 city | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 darkly | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 darkly | cop |
| 7 | darkly | darkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 renowned | amod |
| 8 | renowned | renowned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 science | case |
| 10 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 science | amod |
| 11 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 renowned | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 insomuch | punct |
| 13 | insomuch | insomuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 called | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 art | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 art | compound |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 insomuch | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 French | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 French | det |
| 22 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nations | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 nations | cc |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 nations | case |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nations | amod |
| 27 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Toledana | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Toledana | det |
| 30 | Arte | Arte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Toledana | compound |
| 31 | Toledana | Toledana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 nations | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this city | darkly renowned for mystic science | insomuch parataxis; other nations the Arte Toledana parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renowned=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | participle | ever | darkly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the French | the magic art | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=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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