Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 54
It is supposed to be a piece of literary mosaic work, made up from both Spanish and Arabian chronicles: yet from this work most of the Spanish historians have drawn their particulars relative to the fortunes of Don Roderick.
What happens: suppose, be, make up, draw · To what, where: Many, piece, Spanish chronicles, work
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: 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 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | aux:pass |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 piece | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 piece | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supposed | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 9 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 work | amod |
| 10 | mosaic | mosaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 work | amod |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 supposed | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 made | compound:prt |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 chronicles | case |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 chronicles | det |
| 17 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chronicles | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Arabian | cc |
| 19 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Spanish | conj |
| 20 | chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 drawn | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 work | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 work | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 work | det |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 historians | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 historians | det |
| 29 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 historians | amod |
| 30 | historians | historian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 most | nmod |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 drawn | aux |
| 32 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 supposed | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 particulars | nmod:poss |
| 34 | particulars | particular | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 drawn | obj |
| 35 | relative | relative | ADV | _ | 32 drawn | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 fortunes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fortunes | det |
| 38 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 drawn | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Don | case |
| 40 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 fortunes | nmod |
| 41 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Don | flat |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | Many | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a piece | of literary mosaic work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | participle | both Spanish chronicles | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | draw | present · perfect · passive | this work | to the fortunes of Don; historians's particulars obj; relative property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary particular=Result |
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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