Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 16
The cavern extends under the city and beneath the bed of the Tagus to the distance of three leagues beyond.
Who acts: cavern · What happens: extend · To what, where: city
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 (cavern), 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 cavern | det |
| 2 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extends | nsubj |
| 3 | extends | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extends | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bed | cc |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tagus | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tagus | det |
| 13 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bed | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extends | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 leagues | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 leagues | nummod |
| 19 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 distance | nmod |
| 20 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 19 leagues | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 extends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | the cavern | the city and the bed of the Tagus | to the distance of three leagues | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under city=Location |
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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