Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 15
The portal is secured by massive doors, opening within the walls of the church, but which are kept rigorously closed.
Who acts: massive doors · What happens: secure, open, keep, close · To what, where: portal
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 (massive doors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 portal | det |
| 2 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 secured | aux:pass |
| 4 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 doors | case |
| 6 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doors | amod |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 secured | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 9 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 secured | advcl |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 opening | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walls | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux:pass |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 secured | parataxis |
| 21 | rigorously | rigorously | ADV | _ | 22 closed | advmod |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 kept | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | present · passive | massive doors | the portal | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | massive doors not said here | within the walls of the church | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present · passive | which nsubj:pass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | close | participle | rigorously property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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