Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 53
[1] Many of the facts in this legend are taken from an old chronicle, written in quaint and antiquated Spanish, and professing to be a translation from the Arabian chronicle of the Moor Rasis, by Mohammed, a Moslem writer, and Gil Parez, a Spanish priest.
Who acts: Mohammed · What happens: take, write, antiquate, profess, be, chronicle · To what, where: Many, old chronicle, quaint, translation, Arabian chronicle, Moor Rasis
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 (Mohammed), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 taken | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 facts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 facts | det |
| 7 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Many | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 legend | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 legend | det |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 facts | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux:pass |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 chronicle | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chronicle | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chronicle | amod |
| 16 | chronicle | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 written | punct |
| 18 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 chronicle | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 quaint | case |
| 20 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 written | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 antiquated | cc |
| 22 | antiquated | antiquate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 written | conj |
| 23 | Spanish | Spanish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 antiquated | obl:agent |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 professing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 professing | cc |
| 26 | professing | profess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 taken | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 translation | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 translation | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 translation | det |
| 30 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 professing | ccomp |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 chronicle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 chronicle | det |
| 33 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 chronicle | amod |
| 34 | chronicle | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 translation | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Rasis | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Rasis | det |
| 37 | Moor | Moor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Rasis | compound |
| 38 | Rasis | Rasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 chronicle | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Mohammed | punct |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 Mohammed | case |
| 41 | Mohammed | Mohammed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 writer | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 writer | det |
| 44 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 writer | amod |
| 45 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Mohammed | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Gil | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Gil | cc |
| 48 | Gil | Gil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 49 | Parez | Parez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Gil | flat |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 priest | punct |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 priest | det |
| 52 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 priest | amod |
| 53 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Gil | appos |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | Mohammed | Many of the facts in this legend | a old chronicle | Gil obl; 1 discourse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from chronicle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | write | participle | a old chronicle not said here | quaint | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in quaint=Destination | ||||
| 3 | antiquate | participle | Spanish obl:agent | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | profess | gerund | Mohammed not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Mohammed not said here | a translation | the Arabian chronicle of the Moor Rasis | tree rules | |||
| 6 | chronicle | the Moor Rasis | nom chronicle «communication 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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