Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 7
Some have supposed these secret caves and vaults to have been places of concealment of the inhabitants and their treasure, during times of war and violence; or rude temples for the performance of religious ceremonies in times of persecution.
Who acts: caves · What happens: suppose, be, treasure, perform · To what, where: Some, places, religious ceremonies
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 (caves), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | aux |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 caves | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caves | amod |
| 6 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 supposed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 vaults | cc |
| 8 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 caves | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 places | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 places | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 places | cop |
| 12 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 supposed | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 concealment | case |
| 14 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 places | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 inhabitants | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inhabitants | det |
| 17 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 places | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 treasure | cc |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 20 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inhabitants | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 times | punct |
| 22 | during | during | ADP | _ | 23 times | case |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 inhabitants | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 war | case |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 times | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 violence | cc |
| 27 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 war | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 temples | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 temples | cc |
| 30 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 temples | amod |
| 31 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 supposed | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 performance | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 performance | det |
| 34 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 temples | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 ceremonies | case |
| 36 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ceremonies | amod |
| 37 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 performance | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 times | case |
| 39 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ceremonies | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 persecution | case |
| 41 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 times | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · perfect · passive | Some | this secret caves and vaults obj; rude temples for the performance of religious ceremonies in times of persecution conj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme cave=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | places | of concealment; of the inhabitants and caves's treasure and times of war and violence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treasure | caves = cave | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | perform | religious ceremonies in times of persecution | nom performance «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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