Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 4
It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills.
Who acts: cragged hills · What happens: build, overlook · 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 (cragged hills), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 built | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | aux:pass |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 promontory | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 promontory | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promontory | amod |
| 7 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promontory | amod |
| 8 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brawling | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 brawling | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brawling | det |
| 12 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brawling | compound |
| 13 | brawling | brawling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obl |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 base | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 base | nmod:poss |
| 16 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brawling | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overlooked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 overlooked | cc |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 overlooked | aux:pass |
| 20 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 built | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 hills | case |
| 22 | cragged | cragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hills | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 precipitous | cc |
| 24 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cragged | conj |
| 25 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 overlooked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · passive | city | upon a high rocky promontory; with the Tagus brawling round city's base | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with brawling=Source | ||||
| 2 | overlook | present · passive | cragged hills | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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