Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 19
A number of persons furnished with provisions, lanterns, and cords, then went in, and having proceeded about half a league, came to a place where there was a kind of chapel or temple, having a table or altar, with several statues of bronze in niches or on pedestals.
Who acts: number · What happens: furnish, go in, proceed, come, have · To what, where: persons, league, place, table
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 (number), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 persons | case |
| 4 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 persons | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 provisions | case |
| 7 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 furnished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lanterns | punct |
| 9 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 provisions | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cords | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cords | cc |
| 12 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 provisions | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 number | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 proceeded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 proceeded | cc |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 proceeded | aux |
| 20 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 went | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 half | advmod |
| 22 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 24 league | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 league | det |
| 24 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proceeded | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 place | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 was | advmod |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 place | acl:relcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 kind | det |
| 34 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 chapel | case |
| 36 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kind | nmod |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 temple | cc |
| 38 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 chapel | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 having | punct |
| 40 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 came | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 table | det |
| 42 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 having | obj |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 altar | cc |
| 44 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 table | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 statues | punct |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 statues | case |
| 47 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 statues | amod |
| 48 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 having | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 bronze | case |
| 50 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 statues | nmod |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 niches | case |
| 52 | niches | niche | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 statues | nmod |
| 53 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 55 pedestals | cc |
| 54 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 pedestals | case |
| 55 | pedestals | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 niches | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | participle | persons not said here | with provisions and lanterns and cords | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with provision=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | a number of persons | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | gerund · perfect | a number of persons not said here | half league | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a number of persons not said here | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | a number of persons not said here | a table or altar | with several statues of bronze in niches or pedestals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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