Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 1
CONSTERNATION OF SPAIN.—CONDUCT OF THE CONQUERORS.—MISSIVES BETWEEN TARIC AND MUZA.
What happens: conduct · To what, where: CONSTERNATION, CONQUERORS
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. 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 | CONSTERNATION | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 3 SPAIN | case |
| 3 | SPAIN | spain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CONSTERNATION | nmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 CONSTERNATION | punct |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 CONDUCT | punct |
| 6 | CONDUCT | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 CONSTERNATION | appos |
| 7 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 9 CONQUERORS | case |
| 8 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 CONQUERORS | det |
| 9 | CONQUERORS | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 CONDUCT | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 CONSTERNATION | punct |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 MISSIVES | punct |
| 12 | MISSIVES | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 CONSTERNATION | conj |
| 13 | BETWEEN | between | ADP | _ | 14 TARIC | case |
| 14 | TARIC | TARIC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 MISSIVES | nmod |
| 15 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 MUZA | cc |
| 16 | MUZA | MUZA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 TARIC | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 CONSTERNATION | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | conduct | the CONQUERORS | nom conduct «act 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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