Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 28
Another and very popular story of this cave, current among the common people, was, that in its remote recesses lay concealed a great treasure of gold, left there by the Romans.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, leave, recess, treasure · To what, where: popular story, great treasure, gold
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 (story), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 story | det |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 popular | cc |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 popular | advmod |
| 4 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cave | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cave | det |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 current | punct |
| 10 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cave | conj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 current | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 concealed | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 concealed | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 recesses | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 recesses | nmod:poss |
| 21 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 recesses | amod |
| 22 | recesses | recess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 that | nmod |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 concealed | aux:pass |
| 24 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 treasure | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 treasure | amod |
| 27 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 concealed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 treasure | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 left | punct |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 treasure | acl |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 left | advmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 Romans | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Romans | det |
| 35 | Romans | Roman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 left | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 concealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | another popular story of this cave and current among the common people | that in story's remote recesses nsubj:pass; a great treasure of gold obj; conceal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a great treasure of gold not said here | there | by the Romans | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by roman=Location | |||
| 3 | recess | story | nom recess «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | treasure | gold | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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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